Medicina intensiva
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Comparative Study
[Needs of the family of intensive care patients: perception of the family and the professional].
Compare the degree of family satisfaction of patients admitted to our intensive care unit (ICU) with the perception of the professional on the care setting and information received. ⋯ Satisfaction of the family was greater than that of the professional interviewed. We stress the need to improve the waiting room, personalized care and the need to individually evaluate flexibility in the visiting hours.
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From the time when a disease whose treatment is going to require hospitalization for a surgical intervention is diagnosed, both the patient and his/her family members or primary caretakers are involved in a process that may involve the experience of several emotional alterations. This work focuses on the description of the different psychological problems and needs manifested by the patients who require, as part of the treatment process and recovery control, admission to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). During the patient's stay in the ICU, the emotional alterations mentioned most frequently by them are anxiety, stress, depression or the so-called intensive care syndrome, during which factors such as excessive noise that may make sleeping and rest difficult, pain, the methods used for ventilation that prevent the patients from communicating adequately, etc. ⋯ The experiences lived may continue to produce emotional alterations even months after hospital discharge, with the development of a Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. This justifies a follow-up in order to detect them and treat them adequately. It seems to be appropriate for the treatment of these patients to be multidisciplinary, attending to both the physical needs related with the disease as well as the psychological ones.