Nurse's booklet on ICU helps kids cope (The Kansas City Sta


As a nurse, Holly O'Brien knows that fear always lurks in intensive-care units. Loved ones speak in hushed tones. High-tech machinery bleeps and whirs, counting breaths and heartbeats and oxygen rates. Steel-cold machines are tethered to human beings whose personalities often are silenced by deep sleep and the rhythm of ventilators.

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