Spousal stress in acute illness
Autor: | Ken Flegel |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Critical Illness 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Acute illness 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Severity of illness medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Spouses Aged Coma business.industry social sciences General Medicine Editorial Emergency medicine behavior and behavior mechanisms population characteristics Female medicine.symptom Line (text file) business Stress Psychological |
Zdroj: | CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne. 189(3) |
ISSN: | 1488-2329 |
Popis: | The phone rings in the dead of the night. The 76-year-old woman picks it up. Her husband has been on a ventilator in the ICU for three days because of a stroke-induced coma. A voice on the line tells her, “The doctor needs to talk with you about your husband.” As she waits, hundreds of |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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