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End of Life in Intensive Care


Admission to intensive care unit at the end-of-life: is it an informed ...

Conclusions: Patients who died in the ICU did not have informed discussions of end-of-life or palliative care as an alternative treatment option before ...

Causes and Characteristics of Death in Intensive Care Units

This study analyzed the causes and characteristics of death of critically ill patients and compared anticipated death patients to unexpected death counterparts.

End-of-life care in the intensive care unit - ResearchGate

Request PDF | End-of-life care in the intensive care unit | The transition from active, invasive interventions to comfort care for critical ...

Communication and End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit

Evidence suggests that improving end-of-life communication in ICUs can improve the quality of care by resulting in earlier transition to palliative care for ...

Experiences in end-of-life care in the Intensive Care Unit: A survey ...

Conclusions: Internal medicine residents have more experience in caring for dying patients and conducting EoL discussions. Even though majority ...

Speaking for the Dying: Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care

Shapiro shares how loved ones actually speak for the dying, the criteria they use in medical decisions on behalf of patients without capacity.

Intensive care - NHS

Intensive care units (ICUs) are specialist hospital wards that provide treatment and monitoring for people who are very ill.

End-of-life practices in Hong Kong intensive care units - HKMJ |

This prospective, multicentre observational sub-analysis of the Ethicus-2 study explored end-of-life practices in eight participating Hong Kong ICUs.

Pediatric palliative care in the intensive care unit and questions of ...

This article reviews the state and practice of pediatric palliative care (PC) within the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with specific consideration of ...

Daily ICU Care Plan Checklist - Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

Palliative Care and ICU Care: Daily ICU Care Plan Checklist · Review progress in managing current symptoms and psychosocial needs (patient and family).

Reflections on dying from an intensive care physician

The speciality of intensive care has a special responsibility to begin a frank and open discussion with our society about the limitations of ...

End-of-Life Care and Nurse's Roles

People who had terminal illnesses were abandoned in hospitals and intensive care units, and death was considered the end of everything such.

Intensive care - HSE.ie

In most hospitals only one person can visit someone in an ICU. These visits are usually for up to 15 minutes and are allowed in end of life ...

Last Days of Life (PDQ®)–Patient Version - National Cancer Institute

It discusses care during the last days and last hours of life, including treatment of common symptoms and ethical questions that may come up. It ...

Critical Care Statistics | SCCM

... life-threatening medical problems; comprehensive ... The leading causes of death in the ICU are multiorgan failure, cardiovascular failure, and sepsis.

What to expect in a hospital intensive care unit (ICU) - Healthdirect

In the ICU, patients are closely monitored at all times, 24 hours a day, by teams of specialist health practitioners. The ICU is different from other hospital ...

The Use of Informed Assent in Withholding Cardiopulmonary ...

High-quality communication about withholding and withdrawing life support in the ICU does not assume that one size fits all; an important aspect of this ...

Complicated grief after death of a relative in the intensive care unit

We performed this prospective study in 41 ICUs to determine the prevalence and determinants of complicated grief after death of a loved one in the ICU.

End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)

The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project is a national and international education initiative to improve palliative care.

Study: Physicians Choose Less Intensive End-of-Life Care than ...

Physicians are less likely than the general public to die in the hospital, new research from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Brigham and Women's ...