Developing and setting up a patient and relatives intensive care support group

Peskett, Maureen; Gibb, Peter

doi:10.1111/j.1478-5153.2008.00302.x

Cited by 46 publications

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“…The likely benefits of such clinics seem self-evident, i.e., knowing the problems families face, it stands to reason that they would need support after discharge. Family members report that support groups and clinics are helpful (53,57,58), and mothers of pediatric ICU patients approved of the concept of a follow-up visit (15). However, to our knowledge, salutary effects for family members of follow-up visits after the ICU have not been measured, and benefits for survivors of critical illness have not been demonstrated (59).…”

Section: Clinics After Icu and Follow-upmentioning

confidence: 67%

Family response to critical illness

Davidson

Jones

Bienvenu³

2012

Critical Care Medicine

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Section: Clinics After Icu and Follow-upmentioning

confidence: 67%

Family response to critical illness

Davidson

Jones

Bienvenu³

2012

Critical Care Medicine

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“…The benefits of giving patients’ the time to share their ICU experiences and delusional memories has also been reported elsewhere with opportunities provided through different forums including patient interviews 4 and support groups. 34 Ringdal and colleagues 15 found that patients who had shared their ICU experiences with others had less depressive symptoms. The use of intensive care diaries can provide a source of information about the patients’ time in ICU, helping the patient process delusional memories 35 and decreasing the incidence of PTSD.…”

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“Releasing a lot of poisons from my mind”: Patients' delusional memories of intensive care

Guttormson

2014

Heart & Lung

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Objectives To describe intensive care unit (ICU) patients’ delusional memories and interpretations of those memories Background Delusional memories of the ICU are distressing for patients and may impact psychological recovery. Methods This is secondary analysis from a study of mechanically ventilated patients’ recall in relation to sedation. Subjects, recruited from one medical-surgical ICU, participated in structured interviews after extubation. Results Subjects (n=35) with a mean age of 66 (SD 12.9) and on the ventilator a median of 4.5 days provided detailed descriptions of delusional memories of being shackled, caged, strangled, or being in a foreign country. Delusions were very real and frightening in the moment. Subjects had difficulty connecting to reality to allow processing of the delusions. Conclusions Patients’ delusional memories of ICU share common distressing themes. Assisting patients’ to connect to real ICU events and process delusional memories may help with psychological recovery after critical illness.

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“…1 Flow Diagram). After thirty-three remaining (4, 5, 12, 19–48) full-text reports were evaluated, 12 were excluded (5, 19, 21, 22, 24, 36, 37, 39, 40, 43, 46, 48) because the subject matter was inconsistent with our aims. One article (33) was excluded because smoking cessation is a public health problem and therefore is not specifically characteristic of ICU survivors’ spectrum of symptoms.…”

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Critical Care Follow-up Clinics

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Objective The purpose of this scoping review was to identify evidence describing benefits of interventions provided in ICU-survivor follow-up clinics. Background Advances in intensive care unit (ICU) treatments have increased the number of survivors who require specialized care for ICU-related sequelae. ICU survivor follow-up clinics exist yet little is known about the nature and impact of interventions provided in such clinics. A scoping review of publications about in-person post-ICU follow-up care was undertaken. Method Ten databases were searched yielding one-hundred eleven relevant unique publication titles and abstracts. Sample heterogeneity supported using a scoping review method. After excluding non-related publications, 33 reports were fully reviewed. Twenty international publications were included that described ICU follow-up clinic interventions and/or outcomes. Results Authors discussed very diverse interventions in 15 publications, and 9 reported some level of intervention effectiveness. Evidence was strongest that supported the use of prospective diaries as an intervention to prevent or improve psychological symptoms whereas evidence to support implementation of other interventions was weak. Conclusions Although ICU follow-up clinics exist, evidence for interventions and effectiveness of treatments in these clinics remains under-explored. Implications ICU survivor follow-up clinics provide a venue for further interdisciplinary intervention research that could lead to better health outcomes for ICU survivors.

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Developing and setting up a patient and relatives intensive care support group

Cited by 46 publications

References 17 publications

Family response to critical illness

Family response to critical illness

“Releasing a lot of poisons from my mind”: Patients' delusional memories of intensive care

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