MeSH: Intensive Care Units, Pediatric/st [Standards]
Navigator-Based Intervention to Support Communication in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Study
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BACKGROUND: Communication in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) between families and the health care team affects the family experience, caregiver psychological morbidity, and patient outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To test the feasibility of studying and implementing a PICU communication intervention called PICU Supports, and to assess families’ and health care teams’ perceptions of the intervention. METHODS:…
Withholding and withdrawing treatment in pediatric intensive care. Update of the GFRUP recommendations
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In 2005, the French-speaking task force on pediatric critical and emergency care [Groupe Francophone de Réanimation et d’Urgences Pédiatriques (GFRUP)] issued recommendations on withholding and withdrawing treatments in pediatric critical care. Since then, the French Public Health Code, modified by the laws passed in 2005 and 2016 and by their enactment decrees, has established a…