The full ICU family guide is free for every family.
In Their Corner logo IN THEIR CORNER
A Family Guide to the ICU

Get the guide

The full printable guide, sent to your email. Free.

The complete trifold is one click away, free, no email required. Print it and fold it into a pocket guide, or keep it on your phone. And if anything in it raises a question, ask me directly right on this page.

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See it before you print it

The trifold, folding itself in 3D.

This is the actual guide you will receive, rendered as a living paper model. Watch it fold and unfold, or grab it and spin it yourself. Six panels, two sides, one job: getting a scared family through their first week.

Drag to spin · Click to pause the fold

Flat and readable

Both sides, up close.

The exact pages you will print. Click either side to zoom in and read it.

Front side of the printed In Their Corner trifold guide
Side one
Back side of the printed In Their Corner trifold guide
Side two

Ask me anything

If something in the guide is unclear, or something in your person's room does not make sense, type it here. Your question comes straight to me, and I answer every one personally.

Questions come to me, not to a company. I am not a medical professional and cannot give medical advice, but I can help you understand the room and find the right person to ask.

What you will receive

One printable trifold, six panels, designed to fold to the size of a phone. Here is what is inside.

Panel by panel

  • Why this guide exists: the story behind it
  • What you are seeing: the monitor, row by row: ECG, RESP, ART, ICP, SpO2
  • Who is in the room: every role on the care team
  • Be their advocate: the five questions for rounds and the notebook
  • If it is your brother or sister: sibling support
  • Taking care of yourself: real advice for long weeks

Printing tips

Print double-sided, flip on the short edge, and fold in thirds. Regular printer paper works fine. If you can only print one side, print the inside pages: the monitor, the team, and the questions.