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Crit Care Nurse 2003 Dec; 23(6): 12
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Letters to the Editor

Informative article about brain-injured patients

I would like to express my appreciation of the article, "Needs of Family Members of Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury" (August 2003:63–72). As a surgical resident who has recently looked after a brain-injured patient (with a very large family, some under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol), I found the article informative, interesting, and useful. We too sought to provide consistent, timely, and honest information, and to patiently repeat this information to all the family members. I think this helped, although they were a little confused when the patient made a better recovery than any of us expected. Then I was able to remind them of the many times I had added, "We don’t really know, anything could happen."

I was also impressed by the way the qualitative research was analyzed in the article. I am in the process of analyzing my first qualitative research for part of my master’s degree in education, and was able to pick up hints on content analysis of interviews. Qualitative research is so different than laboratory-based quantitative scientific research, but I feel more confident about how to do it since I read this article.

Note From the Editor

Carol Chen-Scarabelli will receive the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiovascular Nursing 2003 Clinical Article of the Year Award for her article, "Beating-Heart Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Indications, Advantages, and Limitations," published in the October 2002 issue of Critical Care Nurse.

Chen-Scarabelli will receive the award at the CVN Council’s Annual Dinner in Orlando, Fla, in November 2003.

Helena Tabry, MB, ChB, FRCS
 Southampton, United Kingdom





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