Attitudes towards BIS |
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Positive perceptions |
• Potential benefits |
• Would be acceptable to use for themselves or their family member |
• Appearance of sensor strip/monitoring screen acceptable |
• Any helpful intervention is acceptable |
• Potential for use alongside other monitoring methods |
Conditional acceptance |
• As long as patient and/or family involved in decision to use BIS |
• Depending on patients’ individual characteristics/symptom severity |
• As long as it is clinically useful |
• As long as it is used only in addition to usual care |
Reservations |
• Medicalisation of care and/or death |
• Appearance of sensor strip/monitoring screen |
• Unreliable readings |
• Movement restriction |
• Skin irritation |
• Misinterpretation of readings |
• Potentially invasive |
• Providing information which could be distressing for family members |
• Used for continuous sedation until death |
• Inappropriate for agitated patients |