CJCCN, Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2021

Explicit recall related to mechanical ventilation: An evolutionary concept analysis

By Mylène Suzie Michaud, PHD(C), MScN, RN, and Marilou Gagnon, PHD, RN

Mechanical ventilation combined with sedation is widely used in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, this intervention is not without consequence on the patient. ICU patients can, in fact, remember perceptions that occurred during their mechanical ventilation—a phenomenon known as explicit recall. This phenomenon is not well defined, and no common terminology exists in the medical and nursing literature,