Table 3.
Attitudes towards BIS: sub-themes and categories
| Attitudes towards BIS |
|---|
| Positive perceptions |
| • Potential benefits |
| • Would be acceptable to use for themselves or their family member |
| • Appearance of sensor strip/monitoring screen acceptable |
| • Any helpful intervention is acceptable |
| • Potential for use alongside other monitoring methods |
| Conditional acceptance |
| • As long as patient and/or family involved in decision to use BIS |
| • Depending on patients’ individual characteristics/symptom severity |
| • As long as it is clinically useful |
| • As long as it is used only in addition to usual care |
| Reservations |
| • Medicalisation of care and/or death |
| • Appearance of sensor strip/monitoring screen |
| • Unreliable readings |
| • Movement restriction |
| • Skin irritation |
| • Misinterpretation of readings |
| • Potentially invasive |
| • Providing information which could be distressing for family members |
| • Used for continuous sedation until death |
| • Inappropriate for agitated patients |