#11 The Healing Power of Color, an interview with Prof. Alawi Lütz
An undergoing revolution is taking place at the CC7 Intensive Care Unit of Charité University Hospital, one of the best ranked hospitals in the world and one of the largest anesthesiologic and intensive care (ICU) centers in Europe with over 65,000 anesthesiologic procedures performed per year and over 120 intensive care beds. Learn from Alawi Lütz, German Professor for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine as well as Professor of Health Management, how by joining interdisciplinary forces with medical professionals, tech, and healthcare management experts, the Parametric Spatial Design concept is improving the recovery of intensive care patients. A fascinating interview in which the healing power of light and color will leave you in awe as you find out about how a new human-centered perspective on Intensive Care Medicine is already giving astonishing positive results.
*Circadian Rhythm of ICU Patients is the cycle of physical, mental, and behavior changes that the body goes through in a 24-hour cycle.
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Bio:
He studied and graduated from medical school at the Charité University in Berlin, where he also obtained his PhD and Professorship in anesthesiology with a sub-specialty-training in Intensive Care Medicine.
Prof. Lütz provides consulting in critical care at Charité’s Center for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine also known as the “CC 7”, which covers all three campuses of the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, one of the best ranked hospitals in the world and one of the largest anesthesiologic and intensive care centers in Europe with over 65,000 anesthesiologic procedures performed per year and over 120 intensive care beds.
As professor at the Institute of Healthcare Management of the Technical University of Berlin, his research is mainly focused on improving the care and outcomes of critically ill patients with I.C.U.-acquired brain disease. (I.C.U. is the abbreviation for Intensive Care Unit).
Recently he worked on new technologies related to the natural cycle of physical, mental, and behavioral changes that the body goes through in a 24-hour cycle, also known as Circadian Rhythm of intensive care patients, mainly by deploying patient individualized light therapy.
In this context he has been awarded prices like the “Health Promoting Hospitals Award” for his Outstanding Scientific Publication “Patient-centered lighting environments to improve health care in the intensive care unit”. He is recipient of the first place of the “Design & Health Management” Award granted by the Berlin State Initiative, Project Future – for the all-around project called the Parametric Spatial Design Concept.
The main objective of this award-winning project, in which Professor Lütz has been working since 2013, is the development of innovative solutions that help prevent ICU delirium & Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) by joining interdisciplinary forces with medical professionals, tech, and healthcare management experts.
In his passion for investigating new, interactive room concepts for a more patient-centered, holistic healing ICU environment, he has contributed with important publications like his co-authored article “Modification of the ICU environment is associated with reduced incidence of delirium”, published in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental in 2018. Having partnered with the TU-Berlin, one of the four institutions of the Berlin University Alliance, Prof. Lütz has succeeded in bringing innovative and evidence-based solutions to the patients’ bedside.
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