The aim is to improve patients’ quality of life
« Research shows that as many as 30 % of patients in the intensive care units face the so -called feathered therapy syndrome. It is characterized by cognitive dysfunction, post -traumatic stress syndrome, depression and reduction in physical capacity. habil. dr. Arimantas Tamašauskas, head of Kaunas Clinic Neurosurgery Clinic.
« Different countries apply to different patients treated in intensive care departments. For example, guidelines in force in the UK provide that all patients who need such treatment should be provided with specialized care of sub -intensive therapy as needed, » said Assoc. Neringa Balčiūnienė, The head of the department is to provide the best care for patients and ensure a successful further recovery process, we are already applying this practice in Kaunas clinics. ”
Patients after treatment in the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit are advised by anesthesiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and clinical pharmacologists. « We are currently providing the service for patients who can communicate. If they agree to participate in the program, patients are consulted with multidisciplinary teams, » explained Ingrida Urbonienė, Head of Nursing Clinic at Kaunas Clinics. After identifying specific problems, they are directed to the aforementioned professionals. ”
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According to I. Urbonienė, the development of the service is an important part of the vision of a socially responsible hospital. « We see that this service helps not only patients but also our department specialists. The insights we have received allow for the organization of work and improve the quality of services. We hope that a larger team of professionals will join and we will be able to pay more attention to the relatives of patients who also experience the consequences of pointed therapy syndrome. » N. Balčiūnienė.
Assoc. Tomas Tamošuitis, head of the Kaunas Clinic Intensive Care Clinic and author of the idea of a sub -intense therapy service, was the first to pay attention to patients
The problems after treatment in the intensive care departments, formed the team and initiated the development of the service model. According to him, the service should also be expanded in other intensive care units, using the experience already accumulated.
About 2,300 patients are treated each year in the intensive care unit of Kaunas Clinics Neurosurgery Department. Persons are treated here after various neurosurgical surgery, suffered multiple bodily injuries, severe brain and spine injuries, cerebrovascular disorders, epilepsy, infectious diseases of the central nervous system, tumors, myasthenia and other neurocritic diseases.
