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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Mar 2022
Anthropology in the PICU: Addressing the Local Worlds of Families in an Otherwise Foreign Land.
- Katherine R Peeler.
- Division of Medical Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
- Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2022 Mar 1; 23 (3): e186e188e186-e188.
AbstractCritical illness is a scary, and often previously unknown, experience for children and their families. To best assist pediatric critically ill patients and their caregivers, it is imperative to understand their local worlds outside of the PICU and what matters to them most. Anthropology, and its ethnographic lens and mode of inquiry, is an underutilized aspect of multidisciplinary care and research in pediatric critical care but has much to offer as exemplified herein.Copyright © 2021 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies.
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