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Moral distress in the intensive care unit during the pandemic: the burden of dying alone

Author: Constantinos Kanaris

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 1/2021

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I am asked, almost daily, how it felt to look after adult COVID-19 patients in intensive care when I have been looking solely after critically ill children for the last 15 years. Intensive care is a unique profession. Intensivists are accustomed to the possibility of death on a daily basis. We look death in the eye, we play chess with him, and we know that with great investment (and some luck) on the children’s intensive care unit, roughly 9 out of 10 times, we win [1]. That is our comfort zone. …

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Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet). National Report 2018 (2019) p 8. https://www.picanet.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2018/11/PICANet-2018-annual-report-summary-v1.1.pdf. Accessed 21 July 2020

Colquhoun G (2002) Playing god: poems about medicine. Steele Roberts Limited, Wellington, p 74

The original questionnaire recommended to me was designed by the Behaviour. Health Team and can be found here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YFTUmodSlx8eBmsodOLqWEPhnK2UPH5k/view. Accessed 21 July 2020

Title: Moral distress in the intensive care unit during the pandemic: the burden of dying alone
Author: Constantinos Kanaris
Publication date: 01-01-2021
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Care
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 1/2021
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06194-0

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