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The intensive care unit is the area of hospitals dedicated to intensive care, resuscitation services and it is estimated that each of us, during his life, will go through these services twice. The 101 One O One Foundation is dedicated exclusively to this field of medicine, funding programs to better prepare resuscitation teams, to support research and to accompany patients and their families through 1,200 intensive care units (ICUs) in the world affiliated to this organization. .
In this health crisis, in many countries there was a saturation in the area of intensive care due to the massive influx of patients with respiratory failure and pneumonia, because they needed monitoring and respiratory to ensure mechanical ventilation, among other pathologies.
This specialty, intensive care medicine, is taken over by anesthetists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, internists or surgeons, and nurses are also highly specialized.
Their function is vital because they treat patients who are between life and death with very different clinical images.
Intensive care is a delicate stage, a quick diagnosis, proper treatment, qualified staff, there are many factors that can determine the ability to save a life in these circumstances. Hence the importance of this medical sector having the means to move forward and respond appropriately.
Save a million people in four years
The 101 Foundation, One O One, created in 2018 in France, is dedicated exclusively to intensive care. The foundation is trying to save a million lives in the world over the next four years through the world’s 1,200 intensive care units affiliated with its program through three core actions: Heal better, understand better, and better.
“Better care”, Be more careful: improve resuscitation practices through training programs for medical staff to increase the chances of saving patients’ lives.
“Better understanding”, better understand: funding innovative research programs and investing in artificial intelligence, as it is essential in the field of intensive care.
“Better support”, provides better support: by conducting support programs for patients and their families, in order to alleviate trauma and promote the patient’s return to a “normal” life.
Twice in our lifetime
It is estimated that each of us will go through these intensive care services twice in a lifetime and it is estimated that by 2030 they will be even three times, due to the aging population and the increase in cardiovascular disease and Cancer.
Intensive care is a delicate stage, a quick diagnosis, proper treatment, qualified staff, there are many factors that can save a life in these circumstances. Hence the importance of this medical sector having the means to move forward.
The 101, One O One Foundation is trying to strengthen this part of healthcare and its challenges for the future.
101 One O One, like a code
This digit of 101 is like a code, the first “1” refers to the ordinary person, who lives his life, “0” when that person loses his ability and is between life and death and again “1” is the intensive goal take care that this person can return, regain his health and live.
“My Second Life” Campaign
The foundation is running a fundraising campaign and is proposing a short film “My second life”, “My second life” directed by Loïc Chauveau e played by Sophie M., a royal intensive care physician who has been on the front lines in this battle against the new coronavirus for several months, working in an intensive care unit.
My second life It’s an idea to talk about that “second life” you’re looking to give intensive care patients a second chance, and the film draws a parallel with Sophie M.’s “second life,” that second life of the doctor when he returns home after working in the hospital.
The short film is also a tribute to the entire medical team working in intensive care day and night to save lives and was broadcast in the French press. It seeks to raise public awareness of the importance of intensive care and resuscitation.
If you want to support this foundation and this field of medicine, you can do so here.
Interviewee: Sophie Boulet, the operational director of the 101 One O One foundation.
Here you can listen to the radio program in its long version:
MAG SALUD 2021_03_11 FOUNDATION 101 INTENSIVE CARE long version f / v 14’17 “