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Mon Jul 11 17:09:31 BST 2005

Dear all:
Thank you so much for your responses.  They were quite insightful.  I
should wrap this thing up tonight and get it off.  I have to present on
Friday.  Thank you esp. Dr. K. 
Catherine

> [Original Message]
> From: <KMATTOX at aol.com>
> To: <trauma-list at trauma.org>
> Date: 7/10/2005 10:19:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Family witnessed resuscitatioI would like to present ns
>
> 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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