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The Case for Palliative Care in the ICU

Hospice News

An intensive care unit (ICU) stay often challenges everyone involved. Integrating palliative care could alleviate some of the suffering through symptom management, improved communication about goals and treatment, and better training and resources for staff. Nearly 75% of patients admitted to the ICU experience distressing symptoms.

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Palliative Care – a Human Right – so apparent during COVID

Life & Death Matters

Much of the discussion about ethical issues has centered around the availability of ventilators, but little has been said about the need and the responsibility to provide palliative care, ways to integrate a palliative approach for those who are seriously ill, and how to best support those […].

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Longleaf Medical Director: Hospice Care Needs a ‘Revolution’ 

Hospice News

If I need to do a ventilator on someone, if we need to have a BiPAP, or non-invasive ventilation, or if we need different modalities, those will be done. If I need to do a ventilator on someone, if we need to have a BiPAP, or non-invasive ventilation, or if we need different modalities, those will be done.

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Former Mercy Health CEO: U.S. Needs to Embrace ‘Death Literacy’

Hospice News

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. But they don’t always understand what that means.

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Done Right, Advance Care Planning Can Reduce High-Acuity Utilization

Hospice News

Those were a group of outcomes that we looked at that included mechanical ventilation, hospital admissions within the last 30 days of life, intensive care unit admissions, receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and chemotherapy within the last two weeks of life. So these are generally seen as treatments that are futile.

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How Long Can You Be in Palliative Care?

Seasons Hospice

This type of request is often made by those wishing to avoid life-prolonging treatments such as ventilation or artificial nutrition when there is no hope for recovery. Is There A Length Of Time For Palliative Care? But how long can you stay in the program, and is it effective if you do? How Long Can You Be In Palliative Care?

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

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Level of resuscitation status in the event of a sudden deterioration (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, intubation); as well as treatments that should be administered to your child (analgesia, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, transfusions). What the palliative care team needs to know. What the palliative care team needs to know.