[Time analysis: social contacts in the course of days in a child treated with ventilator assistance in an intensive care unit].
Only few studies are devoted to the psychosocial situation of children with long-term ventilator assistance growing up on ICUs for an undefined period of time. Social contacts are a very decisive aspect of human development. The results of a two-days analysis according to duration and quality of social contacts to a long-term ventilated child on an ICU are described. It is distinctly shown by the results that ICUs--referring to the aspect of social contacts--have a negative impact on the development of long-term ventilator-dependent children.
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D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000523:psychology*; D013997:Time Factors