Intensive care unit (ICU) is without doubt one of the most demanding locations and a number one trigger of monetary burden because it requires excessive use of sources and expenditure.
Confined to a single mattress in a single setting crammed with noises of ventilator alarms, smells of the antiseptic, ache of intravenous traces, ICU-induced myopathies and hallucinations make life robust. What makes all this much more miserable is the dearth of pure gentle in an ICU which results in delirium and despair.
What may fit as a blessing for sufferers in an ICU is a window, which can permit pure gentle to shine via the glass into the room. By selling daytime wakeup and nightly sleep, pure gentle from a window will help preserve or restore circadian rhythms.
I’ve typically noticed that at any time when my sufferers get extubated, what makes them blissful and comfy probably the most is the concept of regaining mobilisation and the very first thing they wish to do is to sit down by a window. Subsequently, they spend a while with their households within the open air, feeling the daylight, the breeze, and the seen greenery that collectively scale back their stress stage, and provides them the hope {that a} return to their blissful, wholesome lives is a chance.
That’s the reason I name each window within the hospital a ‘window of hope’ which reassures the sufferers that there’s nonetheless gentle regardless of all of the obvious darkness.
NIDA RIZVI
KARACHI