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The intensive care unit is the area of hospitals devoted to intensive care, resuscitation services and it is estimated that each of us in the course of his life will go through these services twice. The 101 One O One Foundation is dedicated exclusively to this area of medicine, funding programs to better train resuscitation teams, support research, and support patients and their families through 1,200 intensive care units ( UCI) in the world affiliated to this organization.
In this health crisis, in many countries there was a saturation in the area of intensive care in the face of the massive influx of patients with respiratory failure and pneumonia as they required monitoring and respirators to ensure mechanical ventilation, among other pathologies.
This specialty, intensive care medicine, is taken up by anesthesiologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, internists, or surgeons, and nurses are also highly specialized.
Their function is vital because they treat patients who are between life and death with very different clinical pictures.
Intensive care is a delicate stage, a quick diagnosis, proper treatment, qualified staff, are many factors that can determine the power to save a life in these circumstances. Hence the importance of this medical sector having the means to move forward and respond appropriately.
Save a million people in four years
The 101 foundation, One O One, created in 2018 in France, is dedicated exclusively to intensive care medicine. The foundation seeks to save one million lives worldwide over the next four years through the world’s 1,200 intensive care units affiliated with its program through three core actions: Heal better, understand better, and better accompany.
“Best care”, Better care: Improving resuscitation practices through medical staff training programs to increase the chances of saving patients’ lives.
“Understand better”, Better understanding: funding innovation research programs and investing in artificial intelligence as this is essential in the field of intensive care medicine.
“Best Support”, Better support: through the deployment of support programs for patients and their families with the aim of alleviating trauma and promoting the patient’s return to a “normal” life.
Twice in the course of our lives
It is estimated that each of us will go through these intensive surveillance services twice in the course of our lives, and it is estimated that by 2030 they will be even three times, due to the increasing aging of the population and the increase in cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Intensive care is a delicate stage, a quick diagnosis, proper treatment, qualified personnel, there are many factors that can determine saving a life in these circumstances. Hence the importance of this medical sector having the means to move forward.
The 101, One O One Foundation seeks to strengthen this part of health care and its challenges for the future.
101 One O One, as a code
This figure of 101 is like a code, the first “1” refers to the normal, ordinary person, who lives his life, “0” when that person loses that ability and is between life and death and again “1” is the goal of intensive care, that this person can get up again, regain their health and live.
“My second life” campaign
The foundation is carrying out a fundraising campaign and is proposing a short film “Ma seconde vie”, “My second life” directed by Loïc Chauveau e played by Sophie M., a real intensivist doctor who has been at the forefront of this battle against the new coronavirus for several months, working in an intensive care unit.
My second life is an idea to talk about this “second life” that seeks to give patients in intensive care, a second chance and the film draws a parallel with “the second life” of Sophie M., this second life of the doctor when she returns home after working at the hospital.
The short film is also a tribute to the entire medical team working in intensive care day and night to save lives and has been spread through the French media. It seeks to raise awareness about the importance of intensive care, resuscitation.
If you want to support this foundation and this area of medicine, you can do so here.
interviewee: Sophie Boulet, chief operating officer of the 101 One O One foundation.
Here you can listen to the radio program in its long version:
MAG HEALTH 2021_03_11 FOUNDATION 101 INTENSIVE CARE long version f / v 14’17 “