Research progress of intensive care diary in foreign countries / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

ICU treatment experience is the major source of patients′psychological stress as well as their relatives. Because of physical strain, sedation, invasive therapies, patients with critically ill usually tend to have some delusion, nightmare and memory loss, which cause several psychological disorder such as anxiety, fear and depression. The intensive care diary plays an important role in fill in memory gap , distinguish between delusion and reality ,make sense of illness experience, it is helpful to protect patients and their relatives from psychological disorders. Ever-growing scholars apply the intensive care diary to patients′post-ICU psychological rehabilitation. This review aim to introduce the concept, content, benefit as well as application status, provide some reference of the use in our country.