Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences (Nov 2002)

The lived experience of patients on mechanical ventilation

  • Portia J Jordan,
  • Dalena van Rooyen,
  • Johanita Strümpher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v7i4.101
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 4

Abstract

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Patients connected to a mechanical ventilator have to endure various experiences and emotions, which are unique to each patient. Opsomming Pasiënte wat aan ‘n meganiese ventilator gekoppel is, moet verskeie emosies en ervarings deurmaak, wat aan elke persoon uniek is. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.