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Med Crit 2003; 17 (1)

Problems of the critical care medicine in Mexico

Díaz de León PM, Briones GJC,Gómez Bravo TE, Gil RN, Heredia HO, Mendoza TAM, Ramírez HMG

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 28-33
PDF size: 60.20 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Objective: To inform about the psychosomatic alterations of the intensivist physicians as well as the loss of their economic capacity.
Design: Prospective study.
Setting: A polyvalent ICU of a tertiary care hospital, Mexico City.
Material and methods: We obtained the data of 94 attending physicians who work in 15 ICUs of Mexico City through an open survey. The data were compared with a previous report published in 1989.
Interventions: None.
Results: The psychiatric diseases had an incidence of three fold than the general population. The intensivist needs a major number of jobs to preserve his level of economic capacity similar to the previous status in 1989.
Conclusion: The intensivist need psychiatric help and an increase of his/her salary.


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