To Survive Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Search for Meaning and Coherence

Bremer, Anders,1957-Växjö universitet,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och socialt arbete,University of Borås, Sweden (author)

To Survive Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest : A Search for Meaning and Coherence

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.

Dahlberg, Karin,1952-Växjö universitet,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och socialt arbete(Swepub:lnu)kdaivosa (author)
Sandman, Lars,1965-University of Borås, Sweden (author)
Växjö universitetInstitutionen för vårdvetenskap och socialt arbete (creator_code:org_t)

In:Qualitative Health ResearchThousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications19:3, s. 323-3381049-73231552-7557

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