This person reconstructed her memories of the time in the intensive care unit with the help of her family's narratives.

Cette personne a reconstitué ses souvenirs du séjour en unité de soins intensifs à l'aide des récits de sa famille.

C'était comme ça.  C'est ça qui est fou, je ne comprends pas pourquoi. Je ne peux pas dire que ça m'ait dérangé, je n'ai absolument aucun souvenir de ce qui s'est passé. Elle a dû tout me raconter et il est difficile aujourd'hui de faire la distinction entre ce que j'ai vécu et ce que je sais par ouï-dire. Mais une situation m'est venue à l'esprit. C'est quand le chirurgien est venu et a dit qu'il devait recoudre la suture, à dix heures du soir.

Cette personne se souvient avec l'aide de sa famille.

Questa persona ha ricostruito i suoi ricordi del periodo in terapia intensiva con l'aiuto dei racconti della sua famiglia.

Ecco come è andata. Questa è la cosa assurda, non riesco a capire perché. Non posso dire che mi ha dato fastidio, non ho assolutamente alcun ricordo di quello che è successo. E lei ha dovuto raccontarmi tutto, ed è difficile ora distinguere tra quello che ho vissuto e quello che so per sentito dire. Ma una situazione mi è venuta in mente. Fu quando venne il chirurgo e disse che doveva ricucire la sutura, alle dieci di sera.

Questa persona ricorda con l'aiuto della sua famiglia.

Diese Person rekonstruierte ihre Erinnerungen an die Zeit auf der Intensivstation mit Hilfe der Erzählungen ihrer Familie.

Das war so. Das ist eben das Verrückte, ich kann nicht nachvollziehen warum. Ich kann nicht sagen es hat mich gestört, ich kann mich absolut nicht daran erinnern was passiert ist. Und sie musste mir das ja alles erzählen und es ist schwierig jetzt auseinander zu halten, was ich erlebt habe und was ich vom Hörensagen weiss. Aber eine Situation ist mir doch noch in den Sinn gekommen. Und zwar als der Chirurg kam und sagte, er müsse die Naht jetzt nochmals nähen, nachts um zehn Uhr.

Diese Person erinnert sich mit Hilfe ihrer Familie.

That was so. That's the crazy thing, I can't understand why. I can't say it bothered me, I absolutely can't remember what happened. And she had to tell me everything, and it's difficult now to distinguish between what I experienced and what I know from hearsay. But one situation did come to my mind. It was when the surgeon came and said that he had to sew the suture again, at ten o'clock at night.

This person remembers with the help of her  family.

Our interviewees often have to deal with memory gaps. Their descriptions are a mixture of what they experienced themselves,what is added afterwards by relatives or team members, or feelings/emotions to which they give words afterwards. Regardless of these limitations, it is important to note that these memories represent real experiences for the patient.

Forgetting: remembering with the help of other people.

With the technical and medical possibilities on intensive care a patient can be able to survive life-threatening illnesses. These experiences of critical illness and intensive care medicine are challenging for patients and families. Often experiences made on intensive care unit (ICU) can be life changing.
In small video- or audio-sequences we would like to illustrate the experiences made by patients on ICU and how they handled their stay in this critical situation.
Many patients share their experiences on intensive care unit and show how these experiences influenced their life.

Grazie alle possibilità mediche e tecniche offerte dalla terapia intensiva, oggi un paziente può sopravvivere a malattie gravi e precedentemente mortali. L’esperienza di queste gravi condizioni di salute e l’esperienza della terapia intensiva possono cambiare la vita in modo radicale, sia ai pazienti che ai loro cari.

In questa sezione potete scoprire come altre persone hanno vissuto il loro tempo in un’unità di terapia intensiva. In brevi video o estratti di testo, i pazienti raccontano la loro permanenza in terapia intensiva, il modo in cui hanno gestito questo periodo delle loro vite, ed il modo in cui questa esperienza li ha cambiati.

Esperienze in terapia intensiva

Les possibilités médicales et techniques permettent de plus en plus souvent aux patients de survivre à des maladies graves et autrefois mortelles. L’expérience par les patients de ces maladies graves et de leur prise en charge médicale en soins intensifs peuvent changer la vie d’une manière très mémorable.

Dans cette section, vous découvrirez comment d’autres personnes ont vécu leur séjour dans une unité de soins intensifs. Dans de courts extraits vidéo ou textuels, les patients rendent compte de leur séjour à l’unité de soins intensifs. Ils témoignent également des changements qui peuvent se produire dans la vie d’une personne après les soins intensifs.

Expérience en médecine de soins intensifs

Die heutigen medizinischen und technischen Möglichkeiten lassen Patient*innen schwere und lebensbedrohliche Erkrankungen überstehen. Die Erfahrung einer so schweren Erkrankung, die eine intensivmedizinischen Behandlung benötigt, kann das Leben sehr einprägsam verändern.

Wie andere Menschen die Zeit auf einer Intensivstation erlebt haben, können Sie in dieser Sektion erfahren. In kurzen Video- oder Textausschnitten berichten Patient*innen und Angehörige,  über die Erfahrungen einer schweren oft lebensbedrohlichen Erkrankung und einer Behandlung auf einer Intensivstation. Ebenso können Sie erfahren, mit welchen Veränderungen die Betroffenen sich nach der Zeit auf der Intensivstation auseinandersetzen.

Erfahrungen Intensivmedizin

Experiences in Intensive Care

This person talks with a relative about how embarrassed she is about not remembering, about having lost control for two days.

A4: So when you first said this, these gaps, I had the impression that it bothers you a lot. Because there's just a piece of the puzzle missing in this picture. There's something missing and you had no control over that time.
P4: That's bad anyway.
A4: That's what I felt there. But the fact that your teeth were brushed and you were cared for, I know that. That took place. 
P4: That's good. Yes, well, it's just a memory gap, and I think it's just a matter of trusting that everything has gone right. You can imagine or think up things that are not at all realistic. What happened in those 24 hours a day. That's what makes me, when you don't know anything at all.... How was I taken care of? You know, all those things that I actually care about. The hole, that's what bothers me. That I can remember what was up there for two days at the most, and nothing else. Nothing else. That makes trouble for me.
I1: And you said earlier about having no control. 
P4: Yes, you give up control when you have an operation. And I am actually a bit of a control freak. Yes, you just have to say that, that's part of my character. And then to have this confidence that everything went right, that's what I miss. I probably still miss that today, I can't say it any other way.And I can't put it any other way, I wouldn't know how to at the moment.  Well, let's stay with that.
A4: In retrospect, do you still have the feeling of being at the mercy of this situation?
P4: Yes, of course, you are at the mercy.

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This person remembers with the help of her family.

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