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Article: ICU Patients’ Family Members Are at Risk for PTSD.
- Article from:
- Internal Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- August 15, 2005
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ICU Patients? Family Members Are at Risk for PTSD
Abstract & Commentary
By David J. Pierson, MD, Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington. Dr. Pierson reports no financial relationship to this field of study.
Synopsis: When closest family members of critically ill patients were interviewed 90 days later, significant post-traumatic stress symptoms were present in one-third of them. Risks for PTSD were more prevalent if the patient had died in the ICU, especially after end-of-life decision-making in which the family member participated.
Source: Azoulay E, et al. Risk of ...