Nursing Interventions to Prevent Delirium in Critically Ill Patients in the Intensive Care Unit during the COVID19 Pandemic-Narrative Overview

Dorota Ozga; Sabina Krupa; Paweł Witt; Wioletta Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska

doi:10.3390/healthcare8040578

Nursing Interventions to Prevent Delirium in Critically Ill Patients in the Intensive Care Unit during the COVID19 Pandemic-Narrative Overview

Healthcare (Basel). 2020 Dec 21;8(4):578. doi: 10.3390/healthcare8040578.

Authors

Dorota Ozga¹, Sabina Krupa¹, Paweł Witt², Wioletta Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, 35-310 Rzeszow, Poland.
² Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warszawa, Poland.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology Nursing & Intensive Care, Medical University in Gdansk, 80-211 Gdańsk, Poland.

Abstract

It has become a standard measure in recent years to utilise evidence-based practice, which is associated with a greater need to implement and use advanced, reliable methods of summarising the achievements of various scientific disciplines, including such highly specialised approaches as personalised medicine. The aim of this paper was to discuss the current state of knowledge related to improvements in "nursing" involving management of delirium in intensive care units during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This narrative review summarises the current knowledge concerning the challenges associated with assessment of delirium in patients with COVID-19 by ICU nurses, and the role and tasks in the personalised approach to patients with COVID-19.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; critical care; delirium; intensive care units; nurses; patients; personalized medicine.

Publication types

Review