LutzNietsch, Senior consultant in pediactric intensive care and NICU,
March 22, 2016
Dr. Bauchner and many other professionals inside and around pediatric
emergency medicine are asking: Why doesn?t staff members like parents
present in resuscitation?
Let us ask two other questions - one to the man on the street: What
would be worst: to meet your child dead after resuscitation or the
alternative: to meet your dead child dead AND to experience your dying
child under ongoing resuscitation?
The other question is directed to the staff:
What is more traumatic for you: unsuccessful resuscitation of a child or
unsuccessful resuscitation with the parents present?
I am sure we would get a wide spectrum of different opinions. But
these answers can give us some valuable viewpoints and two new dimensions
in addition to the academic results of traditional research.
Dr. Bauchner and many other professionals inside and around pediatric emergency medicine are asking: Why doesn?t staff members like parents present in resuscitation?
Let us ask two other questions - one to the man on the street: What would be worst: to meet your child dead after resuscitation or the alternative: to meet your dead child dead AND to experience your dying child under ongoing resuscitation? The other question is directed to the staff: What is more traumatic for you: unsuccessful resuscitation of a child or unsuccessful resuscitation with the parents present?
I am sure we would get a wide spectrum of different opinions. But these answers can give us some valuable viewpoints and two new dimensions in addition to the academic results of traditional research.
Sincerely
Lutz Nietsch, MD, NICU, Aalesund, Norway
Conflict of Interest:
None declared