Rocking Motion Therapy for Delirious Patients in the ICU: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.

Objectives: Rocking motion therapy has been shown to calm people with dementia but has never been investigated in delirious patients in the ICU. The aim of this clinical trial was to investigate the efficacy and safety of a rocking motion vs. nonrocking motion chair on the duration of delirium and intensity of agitation in ICU patients with delirium.

Rocking Motion Therapy for Delirious Patients in the ICU: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.

Objectives: Rocking motion therapy has been shown to calm people with dementia but has never been investigated in delirious patients in the ICU. The aim of this clinical trial was to investigate the efficacy and safety of a rocking motion vs. nonrocking motion chair on the duration of delirium and intensity of agitation in ICU patients with delirium.

A Core Outcome Set for Adult General ICU Patients.

Objectives: Randomized clinical trials informing clinical practice (e.g., like large, pragmatic, and late-phase trials) should ideally mostly use harmonized outcomes that are important to patients, family members, clinicians, and researchers.

Mobilisation during mechanical ventilation: A qualitative study exploring the practice of conscious patients, nurses and physiotherapists in intensive care unit.

Aim: To explore the practice of mobilisation of conscious and mechanically ventilated patients and the interaction between patients, nurses and physiotherapists.

Background: Long-term consequences of critical illness can be reduced by mobilisation starting in Intensive Care Units, but implementation in clinical practice is presently sparse.

Design: A qualitative study with a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach.

Professional prehospital clinicians' experiences of ethical challenges associated with the collaboration with organised voluntary first responders: a qualitative study.

Background: Volunteer First Responders are used worldwide. In the Region of Southern Denmark, two types of programs have been established. One of these programs consists of voluntary responders without any requirements of education or training who are summoned to prehospital cardiac arrests.

Delirium and delirium severity screening in the intensive care-correspondence of screenings tools.

Background: Delirium severity scores are gaining acceptance for measuring delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the concordance between the Confusion Assessment Method for the intensive care unit (CAM-ICU)-7 and the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC) as delirium severity measurement tools.

Methods: This was a prospective, comparative, observational multicentre study.

Getting the body back on track - Understanding the phenomenon of mobilisation when conscious and mechanically ventilated patients are mobilised in the intensive care unit.

Objective: To gain an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of mobilisation when conscious and mechanically ventilated patients are mobilised in the intensive care unit.

Design: A qualitative study with a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach. Data were generated in three intensive care units from September 2019 to March 2020.

Intensive care unit nurses' perception of three different methods for delirium screening: A survey (DELIS-3).

Background: Delirium is common in critically ill patients with detrimental effects in terms of increased morbidity, mortality, costs, and human suffering. Delirium detection and management depends on systematic screening for delirium, which can be challenging to implement in clinical practice.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore how nurses in the intensive care unit perceived the use of Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU), the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit-7 (CAM-ICU-7), and Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC) for delirium screening of patients in the intensive care unit.

Functional and cognitive rehabilitation interventions during intensive care admission: A protocol for a systematic integrative review.

Background: Long-term cognitive impairment occurs in up to 60% of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors. Early use of functional and cognitive rehabilitation interventions, while patients are still in ICU, may reduce cognitive decline. We aim to describe the functional and cognitive interventions used during the ICU stay, the healthcare professionals providing interventions, and the potential impact on functional and cognitive rehabilitation.

Writing a Diary for "You" - Intensive care nurses' narrative practices in diaries for patients: A qualitative study.

Background: Diaries written by nurses for critically ill patients have been implemented in some intensive care units as an intervention to construct patients' "lost time" and fill in their gaps in memory. Studies have shown that diaries have an impact on patients' psychological recovery after intensive care. However, little is known about how nurses view and carry out the process of writing a diary on behalf of a patient.

Development of a core outcome set for general intensive care unit patients-A protocol.

Introduction: Different outcomes are reported in randomised clinical trials (RCTs) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, and no core outcome set (COS) is available for ICU patients in general. Accordingly, we aim to develop a COS for ICU patients in general.

Methods: The COS will be developed in accordance with the Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials (COMET) Handbook, using a modified Delphi consensus process and semi-structured interviews involving adults who have survived acute admission to an ICU, family members, clinicians, researchers and other stakeholders.

Parents' experiences during and after their child's stay in the paediatric intensive care unit - A qualitative interview study.

Background: Having a child admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is often an emotional and stressful experience for parents.

Aim: The aim of the study was to explore parents' experiences during and after their child's hospitalization in the PICU and to investigate whether parents have a need for post-PICU follow-up.

Material And Methods: The research design was a qualitative study inspired by Ricoeur's phenomenological-hermeneutic approach.

Does rocking motion calm delirious patients in ICU? A multicentre randomised clinical trial protocol (RockingICU).

Background: Rocking chair therapy has been explored in patients with dementia to promote the feeling of relaxation, but not in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients with delirium.

Aim: The aim is to investigate the effect of a chair with or without rocking motion on the duration of delirium and intensity of agitation in critically ill patients admitted to the ICU.

Design: This is an investigator-initiated pragmatic, multicentre, parallel-grouped, centrally randomised, stratified, data analyst-blinded trial.

Negotiated mobilisation: An ethnographic exploration of nurse-patient interactions in an intensive care unit.

Aims And Objectives: To explore nurse-patient interactions in relation to the mobilisation of nonsedated and awake, mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit.

Background: Lighter sedation has enabled the early mobilisation of mechanically ventilated patients, but little is known about the nurses' role and interaction with critically ill patients in relation to mobilisation.

Design And Methods: The study had a qualitative design using an ethnographic approach within the methodology of interpretive description.

A sense of agency: An ethnographic exploration of being awake during mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit.

Background: There is a current trend towards lighter or no sedation of mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit. The advantages of less sedation have been demonstrated as shorter duration of mechanical ventilation and reduced length of stay in the intensive care unit and hospital. Non-sedated patients are more awake during mechanical ventilation, but little is known about how this affects the intensive care patient.

Sedation versus no sedation: Are there differences in relatives' satisfaction with the Intensive Care Unit? A survey study based on data from a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Currently there is a trend towards less or no use of sedation of mechanically ventilated patients. Still, little is known about how different sedation strategies affect relatives' satisfaction with the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Aim: To explore if there was a difference in relatives' personal reactions and the degree of satisfaction with information, communication, surroundings, care and treatment in the ICU between relatives of patients who receive no sedation compared with relatives of patients receiving sedation during mechanical ventilation in the ICU.

Parents' experience of a follow-up meeting after a child's death in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: 'To identify parents' experience of a follow up meeting and to explore whether the conversation was adequate to meet the needs of parents for a follow-up after their child's death in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).

Design And Setting: Qualitative method utilising semi-structured interviews with six pairs of parents 2-12 weeks after the follow-up conversation. The interviews were held in the parents' homes at their request.

No-sedation during mechanical ventilation: impact on patient's consciousness, nursing workload and costs.

Background: Evidence is growing that less or no-sedation is possible and beneficial for patients during mechanical ventilation.

Aim: To investigate if there was a difference in patient consciousness and nursing workload comparing a group of patients receiving no-sedation with a group of sedated patients with daily wake up, and also to estimate economic consequences of a no-sedation strategy.

Design And Methods: Data were collected during a prospective trial of 140 mechanically ventilated patients randomized to either no-sedation or to sedation with daily wake up.

Nurses' experiences of caring for critically ill, non-sedated, mechanically ventilated patients in the Intensive Care Unit: a qualitative study.

Objective: The objective was to explore nurses' experiences of caring for non-sedated, critically ill patients requiring mechanical ventilation.

Design And Setting: The study had a qualitative explorative design and was based on 13 months of fieldwork in two intensive care units in Denmark where a protocol of no sedation is implemented. Data were generated during participant observation in practice and by interviews with 16 nurses.

Noise in the operating room--what do we know? A review of the literature.

Because noise is a general stressor, noise in the OR should be avoided whenever possible. This article presents the results of a review of the research literature on the topic of noise in the OR. A systematic literature search was conducted.

The extent and application of patient diaries in Danish ICUs in 2006.

The aim of this study was to describe the extent and application of patient diaries in Danish intensive care units (ICUs) in 2006. Following critical illness, many patients experience disturbed and disconnected memories. Patient diaries in the ICU have been introduced locally by nurses in the Scandinavian countries and the UK as a means to improve cognitive recovery and prevent psychological trauma following critical illness.