The impact of errors on healthcare professionals in the critical care setting.

•Feelings of blame and guilt in practitioners after medical errors exist and affect all providers.•Surgical practitioners are more likely to experience blame after procedural errors.•Medical practitioners are more likely to experience blame after diagnostic errors.•After an error, practitioners felt that debriefing with the team or talking with colleagues would be the best strategy to mitigate blame and guilt.•A just culture, in which most errors are dealt with as system errors, and not blamed on an individual’s failure would be welcome to ICU practitioners.