Nosocomial infections are hospital-acquired infections, meaning that they did not exist prior to hospitalization. In intensive care, nosocomial infections affect an average of one in five patients. It is therefore a very common complication that cannot always be avoided.
Visits, including those by children, do not expose you to the risk of acquiring nosocomial infections, provided that precautions are observed.
Iatrogenic complications are complications associated with the therapies used. While every machine and every drug used in intensive care is necessary to maintain and preserve the patient's life, no treatment is without risk. The fragility of intensive care patients can make them particularly prone to complications, and makes these complications particularly worrying. That' s why our care teams reassess the need for each treatment and therapy on a daily basis, in order to "wean" patients off what they no longer need before complications arise.
A stay in intensive care is always a major trauma intensive care a patient: it involves confronting one’s own vulnerability—and even one’s own mortality—as well as feelings of helplessness and a loss of control over the situation, a loss of autonomy, pain and discomfort, restraints (patients may be restrained to prevent them from harming themselves), intensive care delirium intensive care patients may experience hallucinations, dreams, and nightmares that feel more real than life itself during their stay), and amnesia: all of these can have significant consequences for psychological well-being. That is why it is important to minimize invasive procedures as much as possible, to provide the most personalizedcare possible, and to ensure that the patient fully understands what is happening to them (including by keeping an ICU diary for them).
Rest assured that the care team does everything in its power to limit these risks. Medical staff are trained to ensure total compliance with hygiene measures, and constantly update these procedures in line with official recommendations.