Prolonged mechanical ventilation in Swedish intensive care units

Keywords: Accounting practices, competence, ethnography, human-human-machine, interaction, intensive care, meaning, morality, technology.. The overall aim with the present

Background: Previous research on moral issues in an intensive care unit (ICU) has mostly focused on end-of-life questions specifically and has not addressed morality in discourse in

Table 4 Self-reports of all Intensive Care Units (ICUs) using Clinical Pathways (CPs), the ICUs that submitted a sample specified.. 2) VIPS-model: a model for nursing

Manias, 2010; Walker & Deacon, 2016).. Patients in need of PMV do not risk just physiological complications in different organ systems; they are also often affected by

Survey of adult Swedish ICUs (n = 77) identifying care practices and protocols for adult patients undergoing mechanical ventilation > 7 days. Results showed low levels of

Ulrica Langegård, RN, MSc, Post Graduate Diploma in Oncology Nursing, conducted the work presented in this doctoral thesis at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences

Keywords: Intensive care, physical environment, close relatives, end-of-life care, nursing care, survey, phenomenological hermeneutics, content analysis, family presence.. ISBN

main problem did not always seem to be decide what the right and good thing to do, but rather how to do the right and good thing. 312-322) indicate that moral stress is independent of