- The Tamaulipas Congress analyzes the proposal to reduce the days of medical residents.
- It was proposed to exhort the Congress of the Union to the effect that modifications be made in labor and health legislation.
- It was stated that the purpose of the proposal is not to compromise the physical, emotional and mental stability of both doctors and patients.
Faced with the possibility that their human rights are being violated, the Tamaulipas Congress analyzes the proposal to reduce the working hours of medical residentswhich could also prevent fatal negligence.
The PAN deputy –but who belongs to the PRI parliamentary group–, Angel of Jesus Covarrubias Villaverdeproposed to exhort the Congress of the Union to the effect that modifications be made in the labor and health legislation to ensure staff schedules are proportionate and dignified.
He stated that the purpose of the proposal is not to compromise the physical, emotional and mental stability of both doctors and patients.
Index hide“The days or shifts carried out by medical students or residents exceed 24 hours, we are facing a potential danger for the correct provision of health services,” warned the deputy.
He highlighted that the negligence could have a type of relationship with the fatigue of students in the health area.
“Unfortunately, we have all heard about the existence of many cases of alleged negligence, carelessness or accidents in medical processes and procedures, which range from a small scare to truly irreparable damage to patients or death,” he said.
He noted that these cases may be related to poor stress managementcrisis or simply due to exhaustion of health professionals.
Covarrubias explained that in Mexico the shifts of undergraduate interns are regulated, as well as the duration of the days of social service in the health areas, as well as the duration of the days of medical residences both in the Federal Labor Law cAs in various Official Mexican Standards.
“They are exhausting and violate the rights of health professionals,” he added.
Doctors need 20-minute naps on call to keep patients safe
n this year’s Euroanaesthesia congress in Milan, Italy, a review of the potentially lethal effects of fatigue on the doctors and nurses themselves, and its impact on the quality of their clinical work and judgment, and therefore on patient safety.
One of the investigators concluded that, due to these risks, “health care should have formal risk management systems like those required by law in any other safety-critical industry.”
It also recommended that all doctors and nurses they need 20 minute power naps during night shifts to keep patients safe (and to make their own trips home after work safer), and also recommended that no doctor or nurse work more than 3 consecutive night shifts.
Dr. Redfern will discuss evidence from various sources, including surveys from the Joint Task Force on Fatigue of the Association of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Anesthetists and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, published in the magazine anesthesiawhich showed that about half of physicians, consultants, and nurses in training experienced an accident or were nearly lost driving home after a Night shift.
In fact, research has shown that driving after being awake for 20 hours or more and at the body’s circadian low point (at night or very early in the morning when it needs sleep the most) it’s just as dangerous as driving with blood alcohol levels above the legal limit. And medical workers who drive home after a 12-hour shift with no naps are twice as likely to crash as those who work 8-hour shifts.
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