Search Tag: family support interventions

2024 09 Jul

  Approximately 500,000 Americans die annually following admission to an ICU, often lacking decision-making capacity due to advanced illness or medications. Clinicians rely on surrogate decision-makers for care decisions, but communication breakdowns are common, making the process emotionally difficult for surrogates. This often leads to patients...Read more

2023 30 Nov

This article aims to address patient-family-centred care programmes, starting from their origins and discussing new protocols.     Critically ill patients entail a great complexity of care. ICU staff has focused on their care, with family members and surrogates put aside for decades. In recent years, we are witnessing a paradigm shift...Read more