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“Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Compassion has been one of the greatest virtues of healthcare professionals. In the early phase of the pandemic, a lot of caution was essential, and restrictions were imposed on the hospital visitation of the COVID-19 patients by their family members. The healthcare system was overburdened, and the...
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author | Mohan, Midhun Joy, Lloyd F Sivasankar, Arun Ali, Shoukath Meckattuparamban, Biju Vareed |
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description | Compassion has been one of the greatest virtues of healthcare professionals. In the early phase of the pandemic, a lot of caution was essential, and restrictions were imposed on the hospital visitation of the COVID-19 patients by their family members. The healthcare system was overburdened, and the healthcare workers were apprehensive about the new virus and the rising mortality. Compassion and family-centered care took a step back as survival of the pandemic became the ultimate goal of mankind. ”COVID-19 patients admitted to the critical care units, their loved ones and the healthcare professionals caring for these patients took the brunt of the emotional and psychological impacts of the pandemic.” However, as we have moved more than a year into the pandemic, knowledge and resources we gained may be leveraged to provide family-centered critical care for COVID-19 patients. Family presence in intensive care units (ICUs) has been associated with higher satisfaction with care, collaboration with the medical team, shared decision-making, reduced delirium, and optimized end-of-life care of COVID-19 patients. The policymakers should review the restrictions, consider a holistic approach, and take appropriate actions to provide safe family-centered critical care for COVID-19 patients. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Mohan M, Joy LF, Sivasankar A, Ali S, Meckattuparamban BV. “Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021;25(9):1049–1050. |
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spelling | pubmed-86640182021-12-27 “Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic Mohan, Midhun Joy, Lloyd F Sivasankar, Arun Ali, Shoukath Meckattuparamban, Biju Vareed Indian J Crit Care Med View Point Compassion has been one of the greatest virtues of healthcare professionals. In the early phase of the pandemic, a lot of caution was essential, and restrictions were imposed on the hospital visitation of the COVID-19 patients by their family members. The healthcare system was overburdened, and the healthcare workers were apprehensive about the new virus and the rising mortality. Compassion and family-centered care took a step back as survival of the pandemic became the ultimate goal of mankind. ”COVID-19 patients admitted to the critical care units, their loved ones and the healthcare professionals caring for these patients took the brunt of the emotional and psychological impacts of the pandemic.” However, as we have moved more than a year into the pandemic, knowledge and resources we gained may be leveraged to provide family-centered critical care for COVID-19 patients. Family presence in intensive care units (ICUs) has been associated with higher satisfaction with care, collaboration with the medical team, shared decision-making, reduced delirium, and optimized end-of-life care of COVID-19 patients. The policymakers should review the restrictions, consider a holistic approach, and take appropriate actions to provide safe family-centered critical care for COVID-19 patients. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Mohan M, Joy LF, Sivasankar A, Ali S, Meckattuparamban BV. “Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021;25(9):1049–1050. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2021-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8664018/ /pubmed/34963725 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23957 Text en Copyright © 2021; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. 2021 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | View Point Mohan, Midhun Joy, Lloyd F Sivasankar, Arun Ali, Shoukath Meckattuparamban, Biju Vareed “Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | “Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | “Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | “Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | “Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | “Compassion Cannot Choose:” A Call for Family-centered Critical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | “compassion cannot choose:” a call for family-centered critical care during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | View Point |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8664018/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34963725 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23957 |
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