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- Title
Family Visitation Policies in the ICU and Delirium.
- Authors
Bauer, Philippe R.; Rabinstein, Alejandro A.; Wilson, Michael E.
- Abstract
The authors comment on research which compared flexible and restrictive family visitation policies in the intensive care unit (ICU). Topics discussed include the association of family visitation with improvement in delirium of patients, some modifiable risk factors for delirium are benzodiazepine, opioid and mechanical ventilation and failure of the research to address key interventions for reducing the time receiving ventilation.
- Subjects
DELIRIUM; INTENSIVE care units; BIRTH control policy
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2019, Vol 322, Issue 19, p1923
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2019.15585