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Experiences in the intensive care unit

Anna A.

Mrs. Anna A. later learns from her doctor that she has been intubated.

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Mrs. Anna A. learns that she has been intubated when the physician tells her in an explanatory conversation 6 months after her discharge from the intensive care unit.

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Corine Mouton-Dorey

Corine Mouton-Dorey focuses her research on patient agency and accountability. Her PhD work on biomedical ethics identified the importance of the patients’voices in medical practice for better care, trust and justice in health. She has a practical experience with patients both as a cardiologist and as a qualitative researcher. She supports  the french-speaking part of the DIPEx project and work on the possibilities to enrich DIPEx process and outcomes with digital technology.

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Mrs. Anna A. later learns from her doctor that she has been intubated.

“E: Luckily I have a great memory of the ICU stay although / even I wish I hadn’t had to go. Considering everything that happened afterwards, yes a very good memory. And then I would say, I was received by the professor in charge of the intensive care six months later for a small assessment and there I went with my brother who was very close to me – well who is still very close to me – and there she explained to us what had happened. And there I discovered things that I didn’t remember or maybe I wasn’t aware of at the time. I was surprised to learn that.
I: For example?
E: Do you remember that you were intubated? And no, I didn’t remember that I was intubated at all. Now I don’t remember. I still don’t remember. Well, now I can say it because they tell me, but I didn’t remember that. That’s it.”

Experiences in the intensive care unit

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.

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Corine Mouton-Dorey

Corine Mouton-Dorey focuses her research on patient agency and accountability. Her PhD work on biomedical ethics identified the importance of the patients’voices in medical practice for better care, trust and justice in health. She has a practical experience with patients both as a cardiologist and as a qualitative researcher. She supports  the french-speaking part of the DIPEx project and work on the possibilities to enrich DIPEx process and outcomes with digital technology.

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