Tag: family
Long-term Effects of Flexible Visitation in the ICU on Patients’ Mental Health
Flexible ICU visitation, compared to the restrictive visitation, was associated with a significant reduction in the 1-year prevalence of post-traumatic stress symptoms in family members. A total of 519 family members were... read more
Scientific Study Validates Usability of Post-ICU Digital Diary for Families of ICU Patients
In a groundbreaking pilot study, "The usability of a digital diary from the perspectives of intensive care patients’ relatives", researchers have unequivocally confirmed the practicality and effectiveness of Post-ICU for... read more
Family Centered Care At The EOL in the ICU
In the context of end-of-life (EOL) care in the intensive care unit (ICU), recent research has often focussed on patients' families. Studies have shown the importance of communication between ICU clinicians and families,... read more
Loved Ones Are Not “Visitors” in a Patient’s Life
Hospitals are institutions whose primary task is to treat patients. Family-centered care, which considers loved ones as equal partners in patient care, has been gaining recognition in the adult care setting. Our aim was... read more
Family Presence During Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation
This systematic review identified four key findings. Firstly, there was a lack of high-quality evidence on the impact of family presence during resuscitation on patient outcomes. Secondly, family members had varied... read more
The ABCDE Bundle Associated with Significant Reductions in Duration of Mechanical Ventilation
The focus on long-term consequences of critical illness has intensified with increasing ICU utilization and survivorship. Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) is increasingly recognized and has profound and long-lasting negative... read more
Assessment of Variability in End-of-Life Care Delivery in ICUs in the United States
This study suggests most decedents in the ICU avoid CPR at EOL, have family present at their bedside, and are closely assessed for pain. However, the delivery of EOL care varies widely among units in the United States, including... read more
Effect of Flexible Family Visitation on Delirium Among Patients in the ICU
In this cluster-crossover randomized clinical trial that involved 1,685 patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), the incidence of delirium was 18.9% in the flexible family visitation group compared with 20.1% in the standard... read more
How Should We Relate to Unreasonable Families in the ICU?
Most families have never suffered through a loved one experiencing prolonged critical illness and respiratory failure (defined as ventilator dependence for weeks, usually with a tracheostomy). But each year, more do. An estimated... read more
The Needs of Families of Trauma Intensive Care Patients
This mixed methods study identified that families of trauma patients have different needs to families of general patients and the nurses rated the needs of the families of trauma patients as less important than the families... read more
There are no wrong questions to ask in the ICU
A common confusion is differentiating between critical care and emergency medicine. Essentially, in emergency medicine, doctors and nurses stabilize patients and then transfer them to the appropriate area of the hospital,... read more
Barriers to Regaining Control within a Constructivist Grounded Theory of Family Resilience in ICU
This paper discusses families' experiences of their interactions when a relative is admitted unexpectedly to an Australian ICU. A grounded theory methodology was adopted for the study. Data was collected between 2009−2013,... read more
Penn studies including families in ICU medical rounds
Unlike at many hospitals, the medical team at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania\'s surgical intensive care unit has embraced the idea of including families in physician rounds...... read more
