Family witnessed resuscitatioI would like to present ns

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Ms Ley;    All of us have read the "policy" and  "comfortable" statements 
from the nursing literature regarding family presence  during operations, 
procedures, and trauma resuscitations.   They are  really not comfort statements at 
all, but unilateral control  tactics.    The science data to support having 
families be  present during autopsies, major operations, major procedures, and 
trauma  resuscitations simply does not exist.   
 
Surveys and analysis has been accomplished by AAST and the trauma  community. 
  Overwhelmingly there is no basis for family presence in  these locations.   
Family to be brougt to the SICU, yes,  into  the shock room after all the 
procedure and resuscitation is over, yes, but NOT  DURING.    
 
One thing that is often forgotten during these discussions is the impact on  
the team, partucularly the surgeon and the surgical team.   We should  do 
NOTHING to produce stress on this team or to make them  uneasy.    In all the 
policy things I have read , produced by  nursing groups, the surgeons were 
completely left out from the planning, the  policy and the principles.   To have 
excluded the surgeons from this  initial formula is really unfair to the patients, 
the families, the surgeons,  the surgical team, and even the concept.   
 
k

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