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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tabah, Alexis
• Elhadi, Muhammed
• Ballard, Emma
• Cortegiani, Andrea
• Cecconi, Maurizio
• Unoki, Takeshi
• Galarza, Laurą
• Rosa, Regis Goulart
• Barbier, Francois
• Azoulay, Elie
• Laupland, Kevin B.
• Kai, Nathalie Ssi Yan
• Ostermann, Marlies
• Francois, Guy
• De Waele, Jan J.
• Fiest, Kirsten
• Spronk, Peter
• Benbenishty, Julie
• Pellegrini, Mariangela
• Rose, Louise
• Ramanan, Mahesh
• Bailey, Rachel
• Kronberger, Irmgard E.
• Cerovac, Anis
• Sligl, Wendy
• Peršec, Jasminka
• Lincango-Naranjo, Eddy
• Osman, Nermin
• Tanas, Yousef
• Dean, Yomna
• Abbas, Ahmed Mohamed
• Elbahnasawy, Mohamed Gamal
• Elshennawy, Eslam Mohamed
• Elmandouh, Omar
• Ahmed, Fatima Hamed
• Koulenti, Despoina
• Tsakiridis, Ioannis
• Gurjar, Mohan
• Cindryani, Marilaeta
• Mahmoodpoor, Ata
• Aldawoody, Hogir Imad Rasheed
• Zuccaro, Francesco
• Iozzo, Pasquale
• Ippolito, Mariachiara
• Katayama, Yukiko
• Kuribara, Tomoki
• Miyazaki, Satoko
• Nakayama, Asami
• Ouchi, Akira
• Sakuramoto, Hideaki
• Tamoto, Mitsuhiro
• Yamada, Toru
• Serhan, Hashem Abdulaziz Abu
• Alsakarneh, Saqr Ghaleb Ghassab
• Kaligozhin, Zhannur
• Viderman, Dmitriy
• Karout, Lina
• Hasan, Mohd Shahnaz
• Zakaria, Andee Dzulkarnaen
• Ñamendys-Silva, Silvio A.
• Rai, Lajpat
• Abello, Antonio Thaddeus R.
• Povoa, Pedro
• Tomescu, Dana
• Drozdov, Evgeniy
• Gallego, Alberto Orejas
• Jariod-Ferrer, Ursula M.
• Nuñez-Garçia, Bernardo
• Mohamed, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim
• George, Abram Raymon Moneer
• Jeitziner, Marie-Madlen
• Saracoglu, Kemal Tolga
• Isik, Arda
• Aslan, Abdullah Tarik
• Torlinski, Tomasz

Titel

Variation in communication and family visiting policies in intensive care within and between countries during the Covid-19 pandemic: The COVISIT international survey

Ist Teil von

• Journal of critical care, 2022-10, Vol.71, p.154050-154050, Article 154050

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During the COVID-19 pandemic, intensive care units (ICU) introduced restrictions to in-person family visiting to safeguard patients, healthcare personnel, and visitors. We conducted a web-based survey (March–July 2021) investigating ICU visiting practices before the pandemic, at peak COVID-19 ICU admissions, and at the time of survey response. We sought data on visiting policies and communication modes including use of virtual visiting (videoconferencing). We obtained 667 valid responses representing ICUs in all continents. Before the pandemic, 20% (106/525) had unrestricted visiting hours; 6% (30/525) did not allow in-person visiting. At peak, 84% (558/667) did not allow in-person visiting for patients with COVID-19; 66% for patients without COVID-19. This proportion had decreased to 55% (369/667) at time of survey reporting. A government mandate to restrict hospital visiting was reported by 53% (354/646). Most ICUs (55%, 353/615) used regular telephone updates; 50% (306/667) used telephone for formal meetings and discussions regarding prognosis or end-of-life. Virtual visiting was available in 63% (418/667) at time of survey. Highly restrictive visiting policies were introduced at the initial pandemic peaks, were subsequently liberalized, but without returning to pre-pandemic practices. Telephone became the primary communication mode in most ICUs, supplemented with virtual visits. •An international survey found ICUs had very restrictive visiting policies with a majority not allowing in-person visiting.•End-of-life and clinical deterioration were the most common situations where the policy could be liberalized.•Telephone became the primary communication mode, supplemented with virtual visiting.