ABSTRACT
Introducción El alta de la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI) a la sala de hospitalización activa el sistema afectivo de los pacientes provocando la aparición de sentimientos asociados al proceso de transición. Los objetivos de este trabajo son conocer los sentimientos y emociones que emergen de la experiencia de ser dado de alta de una UCI e identificar los factores que desencadenan bienestar y malestar emocional en los pacientes. Método Estudio cualitativo y descriptivo con enfoque fenomenológico en un hospital de tercer nivel de Barcelona. Se realizaron 20 entrevistas en profundidad para la recogida de datos. Resultados Se identificaron sentimientos y emociones agradables que provocan bienestar cuando se produce la transferencia: Alegría, satisfacción y seguridad, y sentimientos desagradables que producen malestar: Ansiedad, tristeza, miedo, rabia, desprotección y ambivalencia de sentimientos. Conclusiones Es necesaria una reflexión sobre el gran número de sentimientos que evoca el alta de la UCI a la sala de hospitalización y cuáles son los desencadenantes que los provocan para poder trabajar en ellos y propiciar un alta de UCI emocionalmente saludable. (AU)
Introduction: Discharge from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to the hospitalization ward activates the affective system of patients, causing the appearance of feelings associated with the transition process. The objectives of this thesis are to know the feelings and emotions that emerge from the experience of being discharged from an ICU and to identify the factors that trigger well-being and emotional discomfort in patients. Methodology: Qualitative and descriptive study with a phenomenological approach in a third level hospital in Barcelona. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted for data collection. Results: The pleasant feelings and emotions that cause wellbeing when the transfer occurs identified were: Joy, satisfaction and security. The unpleasant feelings that cause discomfort identified were: Anxiety, sadness, fear, anger, lack of protection and ambivalence of feelings. Conclusions: It is necessary to reflect on the large number of feelings that being discharged from the ICU to the hospital ward evokes and what are the triggers that provoke them in order to work on them and promote an emotionally healthy discharge from the ICU. (AU)
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Humans , Emotions , Patient Discharge , Intensive Care Units , Spain , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Epidemiology, DescriptiveABSTRACT
Impact of training on end-of-life care (EOLC) and the deceased donation process in critical care physicians' perceptions and attitudes was analysed. A survey on attitudes and perceptions of deceased donation as part of the EOLC process was delivered to 535 physicians working in critical care before and after completion of a online training programme (2015-17). After training, more participants agreed that nursing staff should be involved in the end-of-life decision process (P < 0.001) and that relatives should not be responsible for medical decisions (P < 0.001). Postcourse, more participants considered 'withdrawal/withholding' as similar actions (P < 0.001); deemed appropriate the use of pre-emptive sedation in all patients undergoing life support treatment adequacy (LSTA; P < 0.001); and were favourable to approaching family about donation upon LSTA agreement, as well as admitting them in the intensive care unit (P < 0.001) to allow the possibility of donation. Education increased the number of participants prone to initiate measures to preserve the organs for donation before the declaration of death in patients undergoing LSTA (P < 0.001). Training increased number of positive terms selected by participants to describe donation after brain and circulatory death. Training programmes may be useful to improve physicians' perception and attitude about including donation as part of the patient's EOLC.
