RT Book, Section
A1 Bolaji, Toba
A1 Ratnasekera, Asanthi
A1 Ferrada, Paula
A2 Lane-Fall, Meghan B
A2 Shapiro, David S.
A2 Kaplan, Lewis J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1204537906
T1 Patients with Limited English Proficiency
T2 After the ICU: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Supporting Critical Illness Survivors
YR 2024
FD 2024
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260469257
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1204537906
RD 2023/12/10
AB Patient  Care  VignetteMrs.  Obayemi  is  a  78-year-old  female  who  you’ve  been  caring  for  in  your  intensive  care  unit.  Her  hospital  course  has  been  complicated  and  her  health  is  slowly  deteriorating.  Mrs.  Obayemi  came  to  the  United  States  from  Nigeria  last  year,  initially  to  visit  her  adult  children,  but  after  realizing  that  many  of  her  chronic  medical  issues  had  not  been  controlled,  she  now  permanently  lives  with  her  children.She  initially  presented  after  a  fall,  sustaining  a  severe  traumatic  brain  injury,  but  her  course  has  been  complicated  by  the  incidental  discovery  of  ovarian  cancer  and  subsequently  underwent  a  placement  of  a  tracheostomy  and  a  feeding  tube.  Mrs.  Obayemi  is  non-English  speaking  and  was  born  and  lived  all  her  life  in  a  small  village  in  northern  Nigeria.  She  speaks  an  uncommon  dialect  of  Yoruba  and  because  of  that,  all  of  your  communication  with  her  has  been  accomplished  with  her  children  as  intermediaries.  Using  her  children  as  de  facto  interpreters  has  led  to  misunderstanding  and  miscommunication  about  her  prognosis  and  ultimately  the  goals  of  her  care.