The Impact of a Sibling's Death in Intensive Care Unit: Are We Doing Enough to Help Them?

As physicians, we have lost many children who were under our care despite our best efforts. For most of us, after breaking the news to the family, we move on to treat our next patient who needs help. However, the family and most importantly the siblings have a harder time. The aim of this report is...

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Autores principales: Sombans, Shaheen, Ramphul, Kamleshun, Sonaye, Ruhi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6015988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942721
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2518
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description As physicians, we have lost many children who were under our care despite our best efforts. For most of us, after breaking the news to the family, we move on to treat our next patient who needs help. However, the family and most importantly the siblings have a harder time. The aim of this report is to try to understand how they cope with the loss of a sibling who was previously in intensive care unit.
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spelling pubmed-60159882018-06-25 The Impact of a Sibling's Death in Intensive Care Unit: Are We Doing Enough to Help Them? Sombans, Shaheen Ramphul, Kamleshun Sonaye, Ruhi Cureus Pediatrics As physicians, we have lost many children who were under our care despite our best efforts. For most of us, after breaking the news to the family, we move on to treat our next patient who needs help. However, the family and most importantly the siblings have a harder time. The aim of this report is to try to understand how they cope with the loss of a sibling who was previously in intensive care unit. Cureus 2018-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6015988/ /pubmed/29942721 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2518 Text en Copyright © 2018, Sombans et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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