The provision of palliative care: A Western Trauma Association critical decisions algorithm

Jennifer L Hartwell¹, Craig Follette, Marshall Beckman+16

• ¹Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS (J.L.H.); Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS (C.F.); Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (M.B.); Department of Surgery, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA (K.B.); Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Moreno Valley, CA (R.C.); Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (C.C.); Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (A.M.H.); Department of Surgery Keck Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (K.I.); Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ (N.K.); Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN (A.J.K.); Mission Hospital, Asheville, NC (T.K.); Methodist Health, Dallas, TX (M.L.); Department of Surgery NYU Langone, New York, NY (G.A.M.); Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (A.P.); Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (K.S.); Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (M.S.); Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA (R.T.); Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Salem Health, Salem, OR (E.W.); Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MA (D.S.).