Publications by authors named "Hanne B Alfheim"
Article Synopsis
- A study surveyed healthcare professionals in Scandinavian ICUs to understand their views on early rehabilitation practices, particularly focusing on how nurses and other staff facilitate functional and cognitive stimulation for patients.
- Results showed that rehabilitation efforts start with ventilator weaning and sedation reduction, followed by physical mobilization, optimizing nutrition, and incorporating cognitive activities while balancing rest to prevent delirium.
- The study concluded that successful rehabilitation is a dynamic process that requires collaboration among healthcare teams, support for the patient's motivation, and family involvement, progressing from passive to active involvement as patients recover.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore factors influencing sleep in pediatric intensive care units as perceived by parents of critically ill children.
Design And Methods: This descriptive qualitative study used individual semistructured interviews. Parents were recruited through purposive sampling from two pediatric intensive care units at two locations in one university hospital in Norway.
Background: Relevance to clinical practice The findings from the study highlighting family involvement, high-quality communication and flexible visiting policy as central aspects of family care may inspire clinicians to identify aspects of everyday family care in their ICUs calling for further improvement.
Aims And Objectives: To describe family involvement, communication practices and visiting policies in adult ICUs.
Design: A cross-sectional survey.
Objectives: To examine conditions and strategies to meet the challenges imposed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related visiting restrictions in Scandinavian intensive care units.
Research Methodology/design: A cross-sectional survey.
Setting: Adult intensive care units in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Background: Family caregivers of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) experience impairments in the quality of life. Previous studies report that psychological quality of life improves over time, but there has been limited longitudinal research, and measurement points have differed. Factors such as age, gender, and posttraumatic stress symptoms have been found to be associated with the quality of life, but level of hope and its associations with the quality of life have not been investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To describe the prevalence and trajectory of family caregivers' post-traumatic stress symptoms during the first year after a patient's admission to the intensive care unit and identify associations between family caregivers' background characteristics, hope and post-traumatic stress symptoms.
Research Methodology/designs: Family caregivers of intensive care unit patients (n = 211) completed questionnaires at patient admission to the intensive care unit and thereafter at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months. Mixed-model analyses were performed.
Multiple Symptoms in Family Caregivers of Intensive Care Unit Patients.
J Pain Symptom Manage
February 2018
Context: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients experience physical and psychological challenges related to ICU admission in the acute and recovery phases after a critical illness. Involvement of family caregivers (FCs) is essential in the patients' struggle to survive critical illness. FCs report a high symptom burden related to ICU admission.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Estimate the frequency of urinary catheterizations in a high-risk population of children.
Design: It was a descriptive, observational study.
Methods: Incidence of postoperative urinary retention was recorded for one-year-old cleft palate surgery patients admitted to the postanaesthesia care unit or pediatric intensive care unit at Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Norway.