Methodological considerations
This study contributes with new knowledge about being conscious during MV and illuminates a per- spective not previously investigated. The qualitative approach has been excellent to gain understanding of the patients’ experience and both data collection and method of analysis were sufficient. The strict inclusion criteria have provided only few participants, but have ensured that the patients actually did narrate about the field investigated, and not mixed with, e.g. the expe- rience of having a tracheostomy. To provide a deeper understanding of the lived experience during endotra- cheal intubation and MV, follow-up interviews at 3 and 6 months could provide new perspectives as new mem- ories may have emerged.