“We are family, I got all my siblings with me?” – Bringing sibling support in PICU into focus

<p dir="ltr">Each year, hundreds of thousands of children worldwide are admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) because of critical illness or life-threatening injury. These children are admitted from diverse family units, where their wellbeing is closely intertwined with other members of their family, including parents, carers, siblings, extended family, and friends [<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964339725002587?via=ihub#b0005" target="_blank">1</a>]. Within the PICU, we care for these children under the philosophy of family centred care (FCC), where the whole family is viewed as being included in, and impacted by, the experience [<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964339725002587?via=ihub#b0010" target="_blank">2</a>,<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964339725002587?via=ihub#b0015" target="_blank">3</a>]. However, in reality PICU is often an overwhelming and hostile environment for children and their families, and is not always welcoming of wider family inclusion or presence [<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964339725002587?via=ihub#b0015" target="_blank">3</a>,<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964339725002587?via=ihub#b0020" target="_blank">4</a>].</p>