2023-09-25 01:06:18
Patients in the intensive care unit Manchester Hospital in Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes) now have decorated ceilings above their heads. A beach setting, pebbles, flowers, colorful umbrellas or even parrots: these are the elements that patients can see when they finally wake up from several days, weeks, sometimes months of artificial coma and care. “It’s nice, it helps you think, the color is beautiful,” Eric emphasizes with a smile, looking at the parrots above him..
“We try to divert the visual attention a little”
Of the 17 rooms in the service, eight have already been equipped this summer and the rest of the work will be carried out next year. Most patients are obviously intubated, their eyes are closed, they are surrounded by machines. But this decor is a “plus” for the well-being of patients according to the health framework of this intensive care unit. “When they are intubated they don’t realize but when they are waking up, we can have patients who are focused on the curves, the alarms, they are a little panicked, and that’s normal, but we try to divert the visual attention a little”, explains Jennifer Billard before continuing: “it also helps families take the step more easily towards the room because we have people who have difficulty getting back in
Another perspective
In an intensive care unit, there is the soundscapethe noise of the machines constantly, and the horizon is reduced underlines Doctor Samuel Fedun, head of the intensive care unit: “at a stage where the patients are better, we are recovering, there can be a little reading, TV, dialogue, but it is true that it lacks perspective on the outside so if we can have a little joy of living”. And if for the staff a priori it doesn’t change anything, Chloé, a nurse, sees a real interest in it: “these are complex services, where patients are constantly between life and death, it contributes to bringing well-being, cheerfulness, color, it also changes the vision of care”.
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Noise and visual nuisance are also the elements which are noted the most in the satisfaction questionnaires completed by patients at the hospital.
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