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An important success for the team led by Prof. Jürg Hammer and Tanja Sanchez: the paediatric intensive care unit at UKBB has been awarded the SGI certificate. The Swiss Society for Intensive Care Medicine (SGI) issues this certificate to the UKBB for five years without any conditions.
The UKBB intensive care unit cares for patients who are in a potentially life-threatening condition or whose care and monitoring is very complex. As a paediatric intensive care unit, it cares for children from the earliest infancy up to the age of 18, and in exceptional situations even up to the age of 25. A team of intensive care physicians and intensive care nurses provide comprehensive round-the-clock care based on the latest findings and with the greatest possible human affection.
The certification commission of the SGI examines every five years whether the resources (staff, equipment, buildings and facilities) as well as the structures and organisation of an intensive care unit meet the modern, national requirements for intensive care medicine. "This certificate is absolutely crucial for UKBB," says Prof Jürg Hammer, Senior Physician and Head of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine/Pneumology. "Without this recognition, UKBB would no longer be able to fulfil its mission as a university tertiary hospital. This would have an impact on practically all specialist disciplines in our hospital."
To obtain the SGI certificate, you must Numerous quality criteria must be fulfilled. Among other things, this concerns professional requirements for the medical and nursing management of the ward, the organisational structure and even equipment and construction specifications. This also includes the immediate and daily availability of specialised intensive care personnel as well as diagnostic and therapeutic services. In addition, a critical assessment of the patient experience over the past two years is included in the certification process. The commission of the Minimum data set of SGI (MDSi) available. All intensive care units are obliged to record this data set for all patients requiring intensive care and to forward it to the SGI on a regular basis. This makes it possible to compare the severity, mortality risk and outcome of patients between intensive care units in Switzerland.
With the certificate issued on 18 June 2020, the SGI recognises that the paediatric intensive care unit at UKBB fully meets the necessary requirements. The certificate is renewed for five years without conditions.
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