The intensive care unit family meeting: Making it happen

Police in an intensive care unit: what can happen?

During spring 2009 a Swedish senior paediatric intensivist and associate professor was detained and later prosecuted for mercy-killing a child with severe brain damage. The intensivist was accused of having used high doses of thiopental after having withdrawn life-sustaining treatment when the child was imminently dying. After more than 2.5 years of investigation the physician was acquitted by ...

Gender Mainstreaming: Making It Happen

Making it happen, level 2

F yson Kasenga (1) describes the detrimental effect HIV has had on public health in Malawi. This was recently highlighted particularly for maternal mortality (2). Malawi is one of the countries where the impact of the HIV epidemic is clearly visible on the maternal mortality rate (MMR) (Fig. 1). Only after the year 2000 it is possible to see some positive trend in the MMR in Malawi, supposedly ...

EFFECT OF FAMILY-CENTERED CARE ON FAMILY FUNCTION OF PRETERM NEWBORNS HOSPITALIZED IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (NICU)

Background & Aims: The birth of a premature baby and his/her hospitalization at birth, affects on family function. This study aimed to identify the effect of family-centered care on family function of preterm newborns hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Materials & Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, Parents of 60 premature infants with fetal age between 30 and 36 w...

Family-centered critical care: a practical approach to making it happen.

perceived as important for patients’ family members, to allow them time to care for themselves and prevent exhaustion. Our current healthcare era, marked by consumerism, shorter stays in the intensive care unit and the hospital, and nursing shortages, makes family-centered critical care less of an option than it once was. Family members are now active participants in planning the care of their ...