An ICU doctor’s experience ‘from the inside’: learning about Post-Intensive Care Syndrome

Discover how an ICU admission impacted Meta (MD, PhD, and ICU survivor) physically, emotionally and mentally, and why her husband Rob (also MD, PhD) kept a diary during her ICU stay.

What will you learn from this webinar?

This webinar provides a unique perspective on the journey of an ICU survivor and their family. In this case, ICU survivor Meta van der Woude, as well as her husband, Robert Slappendel, are both Medical Doctors and Anesthesiologists. In that sense, the ICU environment was not unfamiliar to them when Meta had to be admitted. However, the experience ‘from the inside’ was unlike they could have expected.

In this webinar, you will learn:

What Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and PICS-Family are;
Why keeping a diary during ICU admission is important, not only for the patient, but also for the family members;
Why it is important for professional caregivers to involve families in care;
What the added value of a digital ICU diary is over a paper diary.

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Speakers

Meta van der Woude, MD, PhD

Anesthesiologist, Intensivist, ICU Survivor

Robert Slappendel, MD, PhD

Anesthesiologist, Husband of Meta

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