The experience of being a couple during an intensive care unit admission.
Louise Buus VesterPia DreyerAnna HolmVibeke LorentzenPublished in: Nursing in critical care (2019)
Although critical illness brings a sudden disruption of a couple's twosomeness, the need to remain, act as and be seen and cared for as a couple persists during admission to an intensive care unit. Therefore, couples need to be cared for as individuals and as a unit, underlining the need to follow trends towards family-centred critical care.