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Where do we go from here? A palliative care perspective.

Ira Byock1

  • 1Anesthesiology and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.

Critical Care Medicine
|October 24, 2006
PubMed
Summary

Palliative care principles offer future opportunities to enhance patient care and family support in critical care settings. Collaboration between critical care and palliative care teams can improve outcomes for critically ill patients and their families.

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Area of Science:

  • Medicine
  • Healthcare Management

Background:

  • Critical care focuses on life-saving interventions for critically ill or injured patients.
  • Palliative care emphasizes improving quality of life and support for patients and families facing serious illness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how key principles of palliative care can address future opportunities and challenges in critical care.
  • To identify areas for clinical and programmatic development and research in critical care.

Main Methods:

  • Review of key principles of palliative care.
  • Analysis of opportunities and challenges in critical care settings.
  • Discussion of interdisciplinary team approaches, communication, and support.

Main Results:

  • Identified key palliative care principles relevant to critical care: interdisciplinary teams, care coordination, communication, emotional/social/spiritual support, life completion, bereavement support, and staff well-being.
  • Highlighted opportunities for integrating palliative care into critical care.

Conclusions:

  • Palliative care principles offer a framework for enhancing patient and family support in critical care.
  • Collaboration between critical care and palliative care disciplines can lead to improved care for critically ill patients and their families.