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How Can We Evaluate Information Provided to Family Members in the ICU?

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Surviving Intensive Care

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine ((UICMSOFT,volume 39))

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Abstract

Admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) signals the eruption of an acute disease process that puts, or may put, the patient’s life in danger by compromising one or more vital functions. To stay alive, the patient must rely on sophisticated machines and highly skilled caregivers. This dependency indicates a condition so critical that many ICU patients are unable to understand their prognosis, diagnosis, or treat- ment; to draw conclusions by logical thinking; or to communicate their wishes about their own care [1 3].

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  1. Dept of Intensive Care Medicine, Hôpital Saint-Louis, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75475, Paris Cedex 10, France

    E. Azoulay (Staff Intensivist), D. Moreau (Staff Intensivist) & F. Pochard (Staff Intensivist)

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  1. Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA

    Derek C. Angus MD, MPH, FCCM, FCCP (Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research) (Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research)

  2. Anaesthesiology and Emergency Department, Fondation Hôpital St Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75674, Paris Cedex 14, France

    Jean Carlet MD (Head of the Intensive Care Unit Coordinator of the Intensive Care) (Head of the Intensive Care Unit Coordinator of the Intensive Care)

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Azoulay, E., Moreau, D., Pochard, F. (2003). How Can We Evaluate Information Provided to Family Members in the ICU?. In: Angus, D.C., Carlet, J. (eds) Surviving Intensive Care. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55733-0_17

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