Trial reportIntensive care medicine2014
Offering the opportunity for family to be present during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: 1-year assessment.
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- Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Family-Centered Care for Adult ICUs: 2024.Critical care medicine · 2025Guideline
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- Effect of a condolence letter on grief symptoms among relatives of patients who died in the ICU: a randomized clinical trial.Intensive care medicine · 2017Trial
- Family Presence during Resuscitation: A Qualitative Analysis from a National Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.PloS one · 2016Trial
- Resuscitation-induced consciousness: clinical, philosophical, ethical, and legal aspects.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- Post-COVID-19 Consequences in Relatives of Severely Ill Patients: Results of the Prospective Multicenter NeNeSCo Study.Clinical nursing research · 2025Article
- Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Family.Critical care clinics · 2025Review
- Family experiences and health outcomes following a loved ones' hospital discharge or death after cardiac arrest: A scoping review.Resuscitation plus · 2023Article
- Family presence during resuscitation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
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- The Impact of Withdrawn vs. Agitated Relatives during Resuscitation on Team Workload: A Single-Center Randomised Simulation-Based Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Post-intensive Care Syndrome.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2021Article
- [Communication with patients' relatives in intensive care].Le praticien en anesthesie reanimation · 2020Review
- Family presence during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Covid-19 Era.Resuscitation · 2020Article
- Aging and Postintensive Care Syndrome- Family: A Critical Need for Geriatric Psychiatry.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2019Review
- Who tells a mother her baby has died? Communication and staff presence during stillbirth delivery and early infant death.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2017Article
- Psychological effects on patient's relatives regarding their presence during resuscitation.Journal of cardiovascular and thoracic research · 2017Article
- [Adult basic life support and automated external defibrillation.]Notfall & rettungsmedizin · 2017Review
- Should Family Presence Be Allowed During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?The Annals of thoracic surgery · 2016Article
- Recovery and outcomes after the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in patients and their family caregivers.Intensive care medicine · 2016Review
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18 authors at 15 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeTo evaluate the psychological consequences among family members given the option to be present during the CPR of a relative, compared with those not routinely offered the option.
methodsProspective, cluster-randomized, controlled trial involving 15 prehospital emergency medical services units in France, comparing systematic offer for a relative to witness CPR with the traditional practice among 570 family members. Main outcome measure was 1-year assessment included proportion suffering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression symptoms, and/or complicated grief.
resultsAmong the 570 family members [intention to treat (ITT) population], 408 (72%) were evaluated at 1 year. In the ITT population (N = 570), family members had PTSD-related symptoms significantly more frequently in the control group than in the intervention group [adjusted odds ratio, 1.8; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.1-3.0; P = 0.02] as did family members to whom physicians did not propose witnessing CPR [adjusted odds ratio, 1.7; 95% CI 1.1-2.6; P = 0.02]. In the observed cases population (N = 408), the proportion of family members experiencing a major depressive episode was significantly higher in the control group (31 vs. 23%; P = 0.02) and among family members to whom physicians did not propose the opportunity to witness CPR (31 vs. 24%; P = 0.03). The presence of complicated grief was significantly greater in the control group (36 vs. 21%; P = 0.005) and among family members to whom physicians did not propose the opportunity to witness resuscitation (37 vs. 23%; P = 0.003).
conclusionsAt 1 year after the event, psychological benefits persist for those family members offered the possibility to witness the CPR of a relative in cardiac arrest.
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