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13.08.2020 | From the Inside

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

verfasst von: Constantinos Kanaris

Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine | Ausgabe 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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Patient details, identifiers and demographics have been changed to protect anonymity.
 
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Titel
Moral distress in the intensive care unit during the pandemic: the burden of dying alone
verfasst von
Constantinos Kanaris
Publikationsdatum
13.08.2020
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Intensive Care Medicine / Ausgabe 1/2021
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06194-0

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