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“Releasing A Lot Of Poisons From My Mind”: Patients' Delusional Memories Of Intensive Care, Jill L. Guttormson
“Releasing A Lot Of Poisons From My Mind”: Patients' Delusional Memories Of Intensive Care, Jill L. Guttormson
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Objectives
To describe intensive care unit (ICU) patients' delusional memories and interpretations of those memories.
Background
Delusional memories of the ICU are distressing for patients and may impact psychological recovery.
Methods
This is a secondary analysis from a study of mechanically ventilated patients' recall in relation to sedation. Subjects, recruited from one medical-surgical ICU, participated in structured interviews after extubation.
Results
Subjects (n = 35) with a mean age of 66 (SD 12.9) and on the ventilator a median of 4.5 days provided detailed descriptions of delusional memories of being shackled, caged, strangled, or being in a foreign country. …