Professionalization in the development of geriatric thinking by the intensive care physician

Abstract

The population's aging is one of the most excellent social transformations in the XXI century. The biggest adults constitute a growing proportion of the patients admitted in the Units of Intensive Cares, presenting characteristic physiologic, comorbilidades and unique vulnerabilities that require a specialized focus of attention. He articulates he/she has as objective to develop from the profesionalización the thought geriatric in the professional acting of the medical intensivista in the integral attention to the biggest adult in intensive cares.  The necessity of a personalized boarding, multidimensional and interdisciplinary of the biggest mature patients in intensive cares, it implies to address the professional formation. The profesionalización is a continuous and dialectical process, directed to develop y/o to perfect the formation of knowledge, abilities and values that contribute to strengthen the previously acquired performance ways, in function of the changes and advances of the science and the technology. The profesionalización of the medical intensivista in the attention to the biggest adult in intensive cares is a demand before the aging, it is a dynamic process that looks for to endow to the professional of the tools and necessary competitions to approach this population's specific challenges, promoting a better acting professional, from a continuous formation of excellence able to transform the professional in a competent, ethical and committed clinical leader with the excellence, promoting an integral attention and of high quality to the biggest adult in intensive cares.