Public profile - Dr Diederik Gommers

The Green Intensive Care: From Environmental Hotspot to Action
- 26/05/2023
Together we must reduce the impact of the healthcare sector and shift towards a circular economy. This paper describes the shift of three ICU environmental hotspots: gloves, gowns, and CRRT bags. Introduction The healthcare sector is one of the most carbon-intensive sectors, contributing to 4.4% of global net greenhouse gas emissions and toxic air pollutants (Karliner et al. 2022)....
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Nine Nurse-Recommended Design Strategies to Improve Alarm Management i
- 11/08/2020
We asked intensive care nurses how they experience medical alarms in the critical care context and how they can help ideate strategies for better alarm management. Our study revealed that excessive medical alarms are one of the sources of discomfort at the workspace for critical care nurses and nurses’ wellbeing is fundamental in providing better patient care. However, eliminating discomfort requires...
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