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Intensive care is the field of hospitals that provide intensive medicine and resuscitation services and it is estimated that each of us will undergo these services twice in the course of our lives. The 101 One O One Foundation focuses exclusively on this field of medicine and funds programs to better train resuscitation teams, support research, and counsel patients and their families through 1,200 intensive care units (ICU) around the world that organization are affiliated.
During this health crisis, there was a saturation in intensive care units in many countries due to the massive influx of patients with respiratory failure and pneumonia, as they required monitoring and respiratory equipment to ensure mechanical ventilation, among other pathologies.
This specialty, intensive medicine, is adopted by anesthetists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, internists or surgeons, and nurses are also highly specialized.
Their function is vital as they treat patients who are between life and death with very different clinical pictures.
Intensive care is a delicate stage, rapid diagnosis, adequate treatment, qualified personnel, there are many factors that can determine the ability to save a life in these circumstances. That is why it is important that this medical sector has the resources to move forward and respond appropriately.
Save a million people in four years
Founded in 2018 in France, Foundation 101, One O One is exclusively dedicated to intensive medicine. The foundation aims to save one million lives in the world over the next four years through the 1,200 intensive care units in the world that are affiliated with its program through three central actions: Better Heal, Understand Better, and Better Counsel.
“Better care”, Better care: Improve resuscitation practices through training programs for medical personnel to increase the chances of saving patients’ lives.
“Understand better”, better understand: funding innovation research programs and investments in artificial intelligence, as this is essential in the intensive medicine field.
“Better support”, provide better support: through the deployment of support programs for patients and their families with the aim of mitigating trauma and promoting the patient’s return to a “normal” life.
Twice in the course of our life
It is estimated that each of us will go through these intensive care services twice over the course of our lives, and by 2030 it is estimated to be as many as three times, reflecting the increase in the aging population and the increase in cardiovascular disease. vascular diseases and cancer.
Intensive care is a delicate phase, rapid diagnosis, adequate treatment, qualified personnel, there are many factors that can determine to save a life in these circumstances. That is why it is important that this medical sector has the resources to move forward.
Stichting 101, One O One wants to strengthen this part of medical care and the challenges for the future.
101 One O One, like a code
This number of 101 is like a code, the first “1” refers to the ordinary person who lives their life, “0” when that person loses that ability and is between life and death and again “1” is the goal of intensive care so that this person can get up again, regain health and live.
Campaña “My second life”
The foundation is campaigning to raise funds and proposes a short film for “Ma second vie”, “My second life” directed by Loïc Chauveau e played by Sophie M., a royal intensive care physician who has been at the forefront of this fight against the new coronavirus for several months, working in an intensive care unit.
My second life It is an idea to talk about that ‘second life’ that one tries to give patients in intensive care a second chance and the film makes a parallel with Sophie M.’s ‘second life’, that second life of the doctor as she comes back. at home after working in the hospital.
The short film also pays tribute to the entire medical team working day and night in intensive care to save lives and has been broadcast through the French media. It tries to make the population aware of the importance of intensive care and resuscitation.
If you want to support this foundation and this medical area, you can do so here.
Interviewed: Sophie Boulet, chief operating officer of the 101 One O One Foundation.
Here you can listen to the radio program in its extended version:
MAG SALUD 2021_03_11 FOUNDATION 101 INTENSIVE CARE long version f / v 14’17 “
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