September 12, 2018
Ambiguity in End-of-Life Care Terminology—What Do We Mean by “Comfort Care?”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2698147Don’t you think he looks comfortable right now?” We stand quietly at the foot of the bed and watch. The patient lies semisupine in the mechanical […]
September 12, 2018
How This Doctor Is Bringing Human Connection Back to End-of-Life Care
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rimmaboshernitsan/2018/08/29/how-this-doctor-is-bringing-human-connection-back-to-end-of-life-care/#6b86e7c26208Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider is bringing together a cross-disciplinary set of minds to reimagine what dying in America looks like today starting with palliative care in the […]
August 21, 2018
Communication and End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit: Patient, Family, and Clinician Outcomes
https://journals.lww.com/ccnq/Abstract/2005/10000/Communication_and_End_of_Life_Care_in_the.2.aspxEven though good communication among clinicians, patients, and family members is identified as the most important factor in end-of-life care in ICUs, it is the least accomplished. According to accumulated […]
August 21, 2018
Changing the Culture Around End-of-Life Care in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit
https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/2008/06000/Changing_the_Culture_Around_End_of_Life_Care_in.26.aspxTen percent to 20% of trauma patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) will die from their injuries. Providing appropriate end-of-life care in this setting is difficult […]