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JAMA, 2002
The technology and expertise of critical care practice support patients through life-threatening illnesses. Most recover; some die quickly; others, however, linger--neither improving nor acutely dying, alive but with a dwindling capacity to recover from their injury or illness.
Kathleen Puntillo, Thomas J. Prendergast
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The technology and expertise of critical care practice support patients through life-threatening illnesses. Most recover; some die quickly; others, however, linger--neither improving nor acutely dying, alive but with a dwindling capacity to recover from their injury or illness.
Kathleen Puntillo, Thomas J. Prendergast
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End of Life Care and Withdrawal of Life Support
DeckerMed Critical Care of the Surgical Patient, 2020Despite advances in critical care medicine and resuscitation, many patients who are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) will ultimately die. Although outcomes may be better for surgical rather than medical ICU patients, addressing the end of life is a fundamental and necessary aspect of critical care for all patients.
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Quality of Life and Supportive Care in the Treatment of NSCLC
Chest, 1996The definition of quality of life (QOL) for individual patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is unclear and its evaluation difficult because of the heterogeneity of the patients involved. More research is needed to determine the best means of routinely expressing and comparing QOL assessments and implementing the results of these studies ...
Reinhold Schwarz, Christian Manegold
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Circulation, 2018
This 2018 American Heart Association focused update on pediatric advanced life support guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care follows the 2018 evidence review performed by the Pediatric Task Force of the ...
J. Duff +11 more
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This 2018 American Heart Association focused update on pediatric advanced life support guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care follows the 2018 evidence review performed by the Pediatric Task Force of the ...
J. Duff +11 more
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Quality of life and supportive care
Supportive Care in Cancer, 1997Quality of life and supportive care are complementary concepts in the care of cancer patients. Neither is easy to define. Both have received increasing attention in the medical literature of recent years. From the clinical perspective, supportive care is one means toward the end of improving patients' quality of life. In order to evaluate our degree of
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Neonatal End-of-Life Spiritual Support Care
Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, 2011The death of an infant is a profound loss that may complicate, disrupt, or end relationships between parents; and lead to maladaptive grieving, long-term decreased quality of life, and symptoms related to psychological morbidity. Facing neonatal loss is frequently experienced as traumatic assault on parents' spiritual and existential world of meaning ...
Reverend Zollfrank +2 more
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The Supportive Care Plan: a tool to improve communication in end-of-life care
International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 2009The End of Life Care Strategy (Department of Health, 2008a) states that acute hospitals need mechanisms in place to ensure that people who are approaching the end of life have their needs assessed, their wishes and preferences discussed, and an agreed set of actions reflecting these choices recorded in a care plan.
Claire Hookey +3 more
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End-of-Life Care after Termination of SUPPORT
The Hastings Center Report, 1995During conversations, Mr. H often paused to catch his breath or to lift his oxygen mask and cough up thick secretions. An emaciated twenty-nine-year-old man with end-stage cystic fibrosis, he had been admitted to the hospital for intensive antibiotics and respiratory therapy, in the hope of slowing his downhill course. For him, lung transplantation was
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Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 2013
BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals and families make decisions about the use of life support for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), including decisions to withhold or withdraw life support at the end-of-life.
J. Kryworuchko +4 more
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BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals and families make decisions about the use of life support for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), including decisions to withhold or withdraw life support at the end-of-life.
J. Kryworuchko +4 more
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Supporting care home residents at the end of life
International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 2011The English Department of Health's 2008 End of Life Care Strategy reported that 17% of deaths in England occur in care homes, with the majority of these in the 85 years and over age group. Given this, the ageing population, and the projected increase in the number of people dying, it is evident that the number of deaths in care homes is likely to ...
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