Covid-19: For Families of Patients Who Died in ICUs, the Experience Was Traumatic

June 23, 2021

(Physician’s Weekly) – While upending visiting policies in intensive care units (ICUs) during the Covid-19 pandemic was necessary to prevent uncontrolled viral spread, preventing families from seeing their dying loved ones proved highly traumatic, according to a qualitative study from France. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, hospital visits were either highly restricted or banned outright, and many patients isolated to ICUs were left to die without friends or family by their sides. (Read Full Article)