Care of (potentally) brain-dead patients. Concept development based on how nurses, physicians and relatives experience the situation.
- Conditions
- R99Other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality
- Registration Number
- DRKS00010420
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Freiburg im Breisgau
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 34
Nurse/physician:
•Voluntariness
•Intensive care nurse/intensive care physician has cared for a (potentially) brain dead patient (preferably in the last 12 months)
•Qualification nurse: registered nurse
•Qualification physician: licence to practice medicine
•=18 years old
•Understands and speaks German
Relatives:
•Voluntariness
•=18 years old Understands and speaks German
•Brain dead relative died at least 10 weeks and not later than five years ago (independent of organ donation)
•Brain dead relative was =18 years old
Brain death in children will not be considered in this research because it is assumed that this is a different experience. The children’s hospital will not be included.
Nurse/ physician:
•Nurses and physicians from the children’s hospital
Relatives:
•Brain dead relative has not been of full age.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The interviews will be evaluated using Benner’s interpretive phenomenology approach.<br>Based on the results recommendation will be developed.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Recommendation