Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 41-50 , February 2008

Health is yearning—Experiences of being conscious during ventilator treatment in a critical care unit

  • Veronika Karlsson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Intensive Care Unit, SkaS, Kärnsjukhuset, 541 85 Skövde, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 500 432800.
    • ,
  • Anna Forsberg

      Affiliations

    • The Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Box 457, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden

,Accepted 1 June 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.06.004

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 41-50 , February 2008

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