Patients' Perception of Stressful Events in the Intensive Care Unit After Cardiac Surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: With pain, endotracheal intubation, and sleeplessness identified as highly distressing to patients, further research can be done to elicit interventions that could alleviate some of the stress involved with a postoperative stay in an intensive care unit. PMID: 30824520 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30824520?dopt=Abstract

Source: American Journal of Critical Care - February 28, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Carey MG, Qualls BW, Burgoyne C Tags: Am J Crit Care Source Type: research