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Families in the Intensive Care Unit

A Guide to Understanding, Engaging, and Supporting at the Bedside

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Editors:
  1. Giora Netzer

    1. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

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  • One of the first comprehensive resources on supporting families in the ICU

  • Presented through a multi-disciplinary perspective

  • Written by experts in the field

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. An Introduction and Overview of Why Families Matter in the Intensive Care Unit

    • Giora Netzer
    Pages 1-7

  3. Family Voices from the Intensive Care Unit

    • Eileen Rubin, Sal Colianni
    Pages 9-15

  4. Cognitive Barriers to Effective Surrogate Decision-Making

    • Joanna L. Hart, Scott D. Halpern
    Pages 17-30

  5. Emotional Processing/Psychological Morbidity in the ICU

    • Ramona O. Hopkins
    Pages 31-47

  6. Family Psychological Morbidity After the Intensive Care Unit

    • Kristina Stepanovic, Julie Van, James C. Jackson
    Pages 49-59

  7. Sleep and Sleep Deprivation Among Families in the ICU

    • Stuti J. Jaiswal, Robert L. Owens
    Pages 61-75

  8. Taking the Lead: Changing the Experience of Family ICU Syndrome by Changing the Organization of Care

    • Donald L. Zimmerman
    Pages 77-89

  9. Unique Challenges for Family Members of Patients with Acute and Chronic Critical Illness: The Older Caregiver

    • Nicole Roeder, Margaret A. Pisani
    Pages 91-99

  10. Family Support and ICU Survivorship: Lessons Learned from the Pediatric Critical Care Experience

    • Bree Andrews, Nilu Rahman, Neethi Pinto
    Pages 101-118

  11. Life After the ICU: Post-intensive Care Syndrome in Family Members

    • Jason H. Maley, Julie Rogan, Mark E. Mikkelsen
    Pages 119-131

  12. Humanizing Intensive Care: Questions, Balance, and Tragic Trade-Offs

    • Samuel M. Brown, Michael E. Wilson, Chris Benda, Negin Hajizadeh, Ramona O. Hopkins
    Pages 133-150

  13. Intensive Care Unit Conflicts and the Family

    • O. Joseph Bienvenu
    Pages 151-159

  14. Identifying, Analyzing, and Combating Family Intensive Care Unit Syndrome in Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals

    • Arunmozhi Aravagiri, Waqas Bhatti, Jetina Okereke, Avelino C. Verceles
    Pages 161-177

  15. Personalized Interventions to Support Families in the Intensive Care Unit

    • Christopher E. Cox
    Pages 179-186

  16. Family-Centered Care Interventions to Minimize Family Intensive Care Unit Syndrome and Post-intensive Care Syndrome-Family

    • Judy Elisa Davidson, Janet Marty Mendis, Truong-Giang Huynh, Samantha Gambles Farr, Suzette Jernigan, Steffanie A. Strathdee et al.
    Pages 187-215

  17. Strategies to Facilitate Communication with Families in the ICU

    • Andre Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral
    Pages 217-229

  18. End-of-Life Care

    • Jennifer L. McAdam
    Pages 231-249

  19. The Integrative Approach to Supporting Families in the ICU

    • Delia Chiaramonte
    Pages 251-263

  20. The Role of Ethics Consultation in Enhancing Family-Centered Care

    • Henry J. Silverman
    Pages 265-275
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About this book

This text is one of the first comprehensive resources on understanding and working with families in the intensive care unit. The text provides a conceptual overview of the Family ICU Syndrome, a constellation of physical morbidity, psychopathology, cognitive deficits, and conflict. Outlining its mechanisms, the book presents a guide to combating the syndrome with an interdisciplinary team. The text represents the full array of the interdisciplinary team by also spotlighting administrative considerations for health care management and approaches to training different members of the health care team. Family voices are featured prominently in the text as well. The book also addresses the complete trajectory of needs of care, including survivorship and end-of-life care.
 
Written by experts in the field, Families in the Intensive Care Unit: A Guide to Understanding, Engaging and Supporting at the Bedside is a state-of-the-art reference for all clinicians who work with families in the ICU.

Reviews

“This is a welcome book that aims to address the way intensive care medicine is practiced and the profound effects it can have on those closest to the patient. … Families in the Intensive Care Unit can and should be read by health care professionals at any stage in their critical care career. This textbook is well written, and appropriately to the subject matter, each chapter strikes a perfect balance between being humanistic and technical.” (Alexander White and Matteo Parotto, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 129 (3), September, 2019)

“This is a unique and important contribution that should be familiar to senior providers in critical care. As a multidisciplinary reference, it also should be available to the other disciplines working in the ICU. Failure to recognize the principles this book describes places both our ICU patients and their loved ones at risk.” (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2019)​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

    Giora Netzer

About the editor

Giora Netzer, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Baltimore, MD 
USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Families in the Intensive Care Unit

  • Book Subtitle: A Guide to Understanding, Engaging, and Supporting at the Bedside

  • Editors: Giora Netzer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94337-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94336-7Published: 08 November 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06837-0Published: 19 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94337-4Published: 30 October 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 400

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine

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