Humanism during the COVID-19 pandemic: video call as a strategy to satisfy the communication needs of Intensive Care Unit patients and their family members.
Background: Patients affected by the COVID-19 pandemic required physical/social isolation due to the transmissibility of SARs CoV-2; those hospitalized in healthcare facilities often suffered loneliness due to a complete separation from their loved ones through visitor restrictions.(1) Human contact and movement were restricted to contain the sprea...
By Michelle Grunauer, Fernando Ortega, Paola Yepez, Manuel Jibaja, Andrea P. Icaza-Freire, Jorge W Velez, Mario F Arboleda, María F García