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Stress and burnout in intensive care units
Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin, 06/19/09

Kantner-Rumplmair W et al. - Occupational stress is a well-known phenomenon in ICUs; in fact, a relatively high percentage of intensivists and intensive care nurses lose the ability to recover. Personal, relational, and institutonal conditions can lead to burnout. The establishment of Heavy Case Conferences as a communication forum in the ICU is a readily accepted instrument for team development and supervision.

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W. Kantner-Rumplmair, 06/22/09

Your hospital manager may say, that 45 minutes for a conference multiplicated with the number of teammembers is a too big loss off effevtiveness on "his" ICU. You can say: One burn-out sickleave less, will balance it.

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