Trial reportPloS one2016
Family Presence during Resuscitation: A Qualitative Analysis from a National Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06048068 (Removing Surrogates' Uncertainty to Reduce Fear and Anxiety After Cardiac Events), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.
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The trial behind it
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Removing Surrogates' Uncertainty to Reduce Fear and Anxiety After Cardiac Events (RESURFACE): A Randomized Pilot Intervention Study
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 109 citations in OpenAlex.
- Discrepancy in perceived appropriate and desired resuscitation durations between physicians and laypersons in cardiac arrest patients.Journal of intensive care · 2025Article
- The Attitudes of Healthcare Workers Towards Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training in Qassim, Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2025Article
- Navigating family-witnessed resuscitation in hospitals: content analysis of free-text survey data.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2025Article
- Is it beneficial to allow the patient's family to attend cardiac resuscitation: Different cultural perspectives? A scoping review.Journal of intensive medicine · 2025Article
- Clinical simulation training for first responders in pediatric emergencies with family interaction: a scoping review.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2025Article
- The Impact of Being Present During Resuscitation on Family Members: A Scoping Review Protocol.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the family presence risk-benefit and self-confidence scales in Chinese nurses.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Perception of Personal Participation of the Nurses in Resuscitation Procedures: A Qualitative Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Development and Implementation of a Family Presence Facilitator Curriculum for Interprofessional Use in Pediatric Medical Resuscitations.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2024Article
- Review
- Family & bystander experiences of emergency ambulance services care: a scoping review.BMC emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Family presence during resuscitation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Article
- Association between nurses' perceived self-confidence in performing family witnessed resuscitation and implementation of the practice at Siaya County Referral Hospital in Kenya.International journal of nursing sciences · 2023Article
- Family presence during patient acute deterioration: A survey of nurses' attitudes and reflection on COVID-19 in an African setting.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2022Article
- One out of three bystanders of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests shows signs of pathological psychological processing weeks after the incident - results from structured telephone interviews.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Documentation of ethically relevant information in out-of-hospital resuscitation is rare: a Danish nationwide observational study of 16,495 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.BMC medical ethics · 2021Observational
- Effect of family presence on pain and anxiety levels among patients during invasive nursing procedures in an emergency department at a public hospital in Western Iran.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2021Article
- Healthcare providers' perspectives on family presence during resuscitation in the emergency departments of the Kingdom of Bahrain.BMC emergency medicine · 2020Article
- Physicians' Characteristics Associated with Their Attitude to Family Presence during Adult Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.BioMed research international · 2020Article
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12 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe themes of qualitative assessments that characterize the experience of family members offered the choice of observing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of a loved one have not been formally identified. METHODS AND
findingsIn the context of a multicenter randomized clinical trial offering family members the choice of observing CPR of a patient with sudden cardiac arrest, a qualitative analysis, with a sequential explanatory design, was conducted. The aim of the study was to understand family members' experience during CPR. All participants were interviewed by phone at home three months after cardiac arrest. Saturation was reached after analysis of 30 interviews of a randomly selected sample of 75 family members included in the trial. Four themes were identified: 1- choosing to be actively involved in the resuscitation; 2- communication between the relative and the emergency care team; 3- perception of the reality of the death, promoting acceptance of the loss; 4- experience and reactions of the relatives who did or did not witness the CPR, describing their feelings. Twelve sub-themes further defining these four themes were identified. Transferability of our findings should take into account the country-specific medical system.
conclusionsFamily presence can help to ameliorate the pain of the death, through the feeling of having helped to support the patient during the passage from life to death and of having participated in this important moment. Our results showed the central role of communication between the family and the emergency care team in facilitating the acceptance of the reality of death.
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