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Intensive care: Experiences of family & friends

  • Overview
  • Reasons for admission
    • Emergency admissions
    • Planned admissions
  • In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
    • Seeing the patient in ICU for the first time
    • Suspending normal routines: visiting ICU every day
    • Uncertainty
    • Emotional impact on relatives & friends in ICU
    • Impact on children
    • Telling others
    • Relationships within and between families
    • Receiving information and news from doctors
    • Sources of information in ICU
    • Nursing care
    • Keeping a diary
    • Sources of support in ICU
    • Waiting for news
    • Signs of improvement and progress
    • The relatives' room
    • Overnight accommodation
  • When someone dies
    • End of life decisions
    • When someone dies
    • Funerals
    • Coping with bereavement
  • On a general ward
    • The ward environment and nursing care
    • Hospital discharge and rehabilitation
  • Life after leaving the hospital
    • Supporting and caring for the ill person at home
    • Impact on work and finances
    • Attitudes to life after the hospital experience
    • Emotional impact on family and friends
    • Adjusting to a changed life
    • Support and information
    • Lack of support and information
    • Messages to others with family or friends in ICU
    • Videos resources for professional support for those working in ICU
  • People's Profiles
    • Aged 30 & under
    • Aged 31-40
    • Aged 41-50
    • Aged 51-60
    • Aged 61-70
    • Aged 70 +
  • Resources and Information
  • Credits

Intensive care: Experiences of family & friends

Resources and Information

See also our section on Intensive care - patients' experiences.

You may also be interested in our section on Organ Donation and our Carers and dying and bereavement resources.

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