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Communication when patients are conscious during respirator treatment — A hermeneutic observation study
Institute of Health and Care Sciences at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden / Department of Intensive Care Unit, Skaraborgs sjukhus Skövde, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9423-9378
Institute of Health and Care Sciences at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden / Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Institute of Health and Care Sciences at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
2012 (English)In: Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, ISSN 0964-3397, E-ISSN 1532-4036, Vol. 28, no 4, p. 197-207Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2012. Vol. 28, no 4, p. 197-207
Keywords [en]
Hermeneutic, Observations, Mechanical ventilation treatment, ICU, Caring, Communication
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Nursing
Research subject
Medical sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-9968DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2011.12.007PubMedID: 22658405Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84863817314OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-9968DiVA, id: diva2:747635
Available from: 2014-09-17 Created: 2014-09-17 Last updated: 2024-07-15Bibliographically approved
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1. Att vårdas vaken med respirator: patienters och närståendes upplevelser från en intensivvårdsavdelning
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2012 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[en]
Being conscious during mechanical ventilator treatment : Patients' and relatives' experiences
Abstract [en]

In recent years, light or no sedation has become a common approach in patients who require mechanical ventilation (MV) when cared for in an intensive care unit (ICU). This new approach has resulted in medical advantages as well as a shorter time on MV and in the ICU. Aim: The overall objective of the thesis was to describe, illuminate and interpret patients' and relatives' experiences of caring and communication in connection with MV while the patient is conscious. Methods: The data collection methods were inductive and included interviews and observations, both audiotaped and video-recorded. The study group consisted of patients and relatives; fourteen patients in paper I, twelve in paper II and nineteen in paper III as well as ten relatives in paper IV. In paper I, the video-recorded interviews were analysed using content analysis and hermeneutics. The text in paper II was analysed using the phenomenological-hermeneutic method inspired by Ricoeur. The observations in paper III were analysed by means of a hermeneutic approach based on Gadamer's philosophy. In paper IV, relatives were interviewed on two occasions. The text from these interviews was also analysed using a hermeneutic method inspired by Gadamer. Results: The patients experienced an overall sense of being breathless. While conscious, they were aware of the mechanical ventilator as a life saver. Besides being breathless, being voiceless was considered the worst aspect. Communication was difficult and awkward as it demanded all their will power. Patients' communication patterns varied but there were commonalities; they also developed an individual style of communication. Being subjected to someone else's will and direction meant being painfully aware of one's dependency. Despite this, the patients struggled for independence in various ways as part of the recovery process. Being conscious while receiving MV demands caring communication, which in turn requires proximity, presence and constant attention by a nurse who is "standing by" and prepared to take care of the patient whatever happens. The patients' non-verbal communication through their gaze and facial expression was interpreted as sadness and sorrow, understood as expressions of unuttered suffering. The overall struggle and primary existential aim of relatives in the ICU is to be in contact with the patient, a need which overshadows everything else. Conclusion: Being conscious during MV means being painfully aware of one's dependency while voiceless and helpless. It is possible to endure this situation when the caregivers are "standing by", attentive to the patients' expressions, prepared to act to make sure that the patients are feeling better and do not leave them unattended. Caring for a conscious patient on MV presupposes nurses' ability to understand and be able to "standing by". If this approach is not possible, consciousness might be too painful and sedation should be considered.

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Göteborg: Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och hälsa vid Sahlgrenska akademin, Göteborgs universitet, 2012. p. 82
Keywords
intensive care, mechanical ventilation, conscious, patient communication, relatives, experiences, standing by, hermeneutics, phenomenological-hermeneutics, content analysis
National Category
Nursing Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Research subject
NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, Nursing science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:his:diva-24388 (URN)978-91-628-8358-4 (ISBN)
Public defence
2012-01-20, Hörsal 2118, Arvid Wallgrens backe, Hus 2, 09:00
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