Victims or survivors?

Cardiac arrest: survivors or still victims?

Worldwide, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest remains a lifelosing proposition for the vast majority of its victims. In the United States, prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) personnel attend an estimated 273 000 persons with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (defined as circulatory or pulseless collapse) each year.1 Survival to hospital discharge from all presenting rhythms of cardiac arrest...

Are we creating survivors…or victims in critical care? Delivering targeted nutrition to improve outcomes.

Over the last 10 years, we are proud of the fact we have finally begun to reduce in-hospital mortality following severe sepsis in some countries worldwide [1]. Further, mortality from acute lung injury has fallen dramatically, as the control group mortality in a recent large Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Research Network (ARDSnet) trial was strikingly only 16% [2]. But the fundamental que...

Survivors of Disasters, Victims of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

A patient arrives alert and conscious to the Trauma Center at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC). As an adult Hispanic woman with no preexisting psychological condition, she is unremarkable save for the fact that she has survived an acute life-threatening event. She is interviewed upon arrival and administered a series of tests to quantitatively assess her injuries. This process is t...

Zimbabwe Torture Victims/Survivors Project Women on the run: Women survivors of torture amongst refugees in South Africa

Aggressive Victims, Passive Victims, and Bullies: Developmental Continuity or Developmental Change?

17 Laura D. Hanish, Department of Family and Human Development; Nancy G. Guerra, Department of Psychology. This research was supported by grant R18-MH48034 from the National Institute of Mental Health awarded to the second author. We would also like to thank Leonard Eron, David Henry, Rowell Huesmann, and Patrick Tolan for their contributions to this research. Please address correspondence conc...