Table 2 Patients' experiences of intensive care: main themes of the study
From: What patients think about ICU follow-up services: a qualitative study
Reasons for admission |
Emergency admissions |
Planned admissions |
Coming round and regaining consciousness |
Sleep, dreams and hallucinations |
Intensive care treatments |
   Physiotherapy |
Emotional experiences in the intensive care unit (ICU) |
Nursing care in ICU |
Death and bereavement |
High dependency units (HDU) |
Experiences in the general ward |
The general ward: care and environment |
Physical and emotional experiences |
Physiotherapy on the ward |
Discharge and moving on |
Recovering at home |
Physical recovery |
Emotional aspects of recovery |
Making sense of what happened |
Information |
   Information for people admitted to ICU for emergency treatment |
   Information: planned admissions |
ICU follow-up care |
Attitudes to life during and after recovery |
Effects on family |
Effects on work |
Sources of support |
Messages to others |