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Care of (potentally) brain-dead patients. Concept development based on how nurses, physicians and relatives experience the situation.

Conditions
R99
Other 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
Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

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
NameTimeMethod
The interviews will be evaluated using Benner’s interpretive phenomenology approach.<br>Based on the results recommendation will be developed.<br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Recommendation
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