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To Survive Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest : A Search for Meaning and Coherence
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- Bremer, Anders, 1957- (author)
- Växjö universitet,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och socialt arbete,University of Borås, Sweden
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- Dahlberg, Karin, 1952- (author)
- Växjö universitet,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och socialt arbete
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- Sandman, Lars, 1965- (author)
- University of Borås, Sweden
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- 2009-10-05
- 2009
- English.
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In: Qualitative Health Research. - Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications. - 1049-7323 .- 1552-7557. ; 19:3, s. 323-338
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- The primary responsibility of prehospital emergency personnel at out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) is to provide lifesaving care. Ethical considerations, decisions, and actions should be based in the patient’s beliefs about health and well-being. In this article, we describe patients’ experiences of surviving OHCA. By using a phenomenological approach, we focus on how OHCA influences patients’ well-being over time. Nine survivors were interviewed. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is described as a sudden and elusive threat, an awakening in perplexity, and the memory gap as a loss of coherence. Survival means a search for coherence with distressing and joyful understanding, as well as existential insecurity exposed by feelings of vulnerability. Well-being is found through a sense of coherence and meaning in life. The study findings show survivors’ emotional needs and a potential for prehospital emergency personnel to support them as they try to make sense of what has happened to them.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- emergency medical services
- heart health
- illness and disease
- acute
- quality of life
- phenomenology
- Caring sciences
- Vårdvetenskap
- Vårdvetenskap
- Caring Science
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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