Pros and Cons of Family Presence During Resuscitation of a Loved One

Traditionally, when a patient is arrested at a hospital, the family is taken to a waiting room from a loved one and begins to save lives. Families have not been allowed to enter the room during the recovery period for many years because healthcare workers believe that the existence of families will hinder the recovery process, but in recent years the family has improved. (Wacht, Dopelt, Snir & Davidovitch, 2010). Professional organizations and domestic guidelines recommend the existence (FP) of family members during recovery, but only 5% of US hospitals comply with guidelines by creating policies on the concept of family existence.

The existence of families is a controversial problem during the recovery of their loved ones and is a relatively new concept in Europe. Because access to the recovery room is redundant for the emergency team and support for the recovery of family witnesses is not widely accepted by medical staff, traditionally, families have been excluded from witnessing recovery attempts I came. Recently it has not spread yet, but this way is increasingly mature. The decision to take a family to the bedside during the recovery of a loved one is complicated. The reason for this complexity is the potential benefits and risks to consider and the impact of decision making on family and medical teams.

In pre-hospital environments there are as few moments as intense as happens when trying to save lives. During these recovery efforts family survival has become an important and controversial issue in the medical environment. The presence of families during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a relatively new problem in medicine. Before the emergence of modern medicine, families often appeared before the death of the person they loved. The last moment of the dying person is usually managed by his or her family at home, not medical staff (Trueman, medical history). Today, families are required to be allowed to witness the recovery. Members of the emergency medical service have differences in this problem focusing on the benefits during the recovery work, but there is a possibility that members of the emergency medical service may adversely affect the existence of the family.