Family Presence during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
| Autor: | Frédéric Lapostolle, Eric Vicaut, Line Jacob, Michel Desmaizières, Elie Azoulay, A. Beltramini, Lionel Bertrand, Virginie Pinaud, Vanessa Belpomme, Patricia Jabre, Lionel Nace, Agnès Ricard-Hibon, Stephane Launay, Guillem Bouilleau, Claire Broche, Benoît Vivien, Armelle Alhéritière, Frédéric Adnet, Thierry Baubet, Domitille Normand, Nathalie Assez, Laurent Turi, Jacques Istria, Stephen W. Borron, Karim Tazarourte |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Emergency Medical Services Resuscitation medicine.medical_specialty Journal Club Critique medicine.medical_treatment education Comorbidity Anxiety law.invention Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Randomized controlled trial law Health care Emergency medical services Humans Medicine Family Single-Blind Method Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Aged Intention-to-treat analysis Depression business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Heart Arrest Intention to Treat Analysis Emergency medicine Female Medical emergency medicine.symptom business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Critical Care |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| Popis: | The effect of family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the family members themselves and the medical team remains controversial.We enrolled 570 relatives of patients who were in cardiac arrest and were given CPR by 15 prehospital emergency medical service units. The units were randomly assigned either to systematically offer the family member the opportunity to observe CPR (intervention group) or to follow standard practice regarding family presence (control group). The primary end point was the proportion of relatives with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related symptoms on day 90. Secondary end points included the presence of anxiety and depression symptoms and the effect of family presence on medical efforts at resuscitation, the well-being of the health care team, and the occurrence of medicolegal claims.In the intervention group, 211 of 266 relatives (79%) witnessed CPR, as compared with 131 of 304 relatives (43%) in the control group. In the intention-to-treat analysis, the frequency of PTSD-related symptoms was significantly higher in the control group than in the intervention group (adjusted odds ratio, 1.7; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.2 to 2.5; P=0.004) and among family members who did not witness CPR than among those who did (adjusted odds ratio, 1.6; 95% CI, 1.1 to 2.5; P=0.02). Relatives who did not witness CPR had symptoms of anxiety and depression more frequently than those who did witness CPR. Family-witnessed CPR did not affect resuscitation characteristics, patient survival, or the level of emotional stress in the medical team and did not result in medicolegal claims.Family presence during CPR was associated with positive results on psychological variables and did not interfere with medical efforts, increase stress in the health care team, or result in medicolegal conflicts. (Funded by Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique 2008 of the French Ministry of Health; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01009606.). |
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