Managing Death in the ICU (eBook, PDF)

The Transition from Cure to Comfort
Redaktion: Curtis, J. Randall; Rubenfeld, Gordon D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care received. The book also addresses the changing epidemiology of death in this setting related to managed care, practical skills needed to provide the highest quality of care to terminal patients, communicating with patients and families, the mechanics of withdrawing life-supporting therapies, and the essential role of palliative care specialists in the ICU. The book briefly describes unique issues that arise when caring for patients with some of the more common diseases that precipitate death in the ICU. Contributors for the book were chosen because they have experience caring for patients in the ICU and are also conducting current research to find ways of improving care for terminal patients in this setting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199747795
• Artikelnr.: 54562084

Inhaltsangabe

* Section I: The Changing Landscape of Death in the ICU
* 1: J. Randall Curtis and Gordon D. Rubenfeld: Introducing the concept
of managing death in the ICU
* 2: Richard A. Mularski and Molly L. Osborne: The changing ethics of
death in the ICU
* 3: John M. Luce and Thomas J. Predergast: The changing nature of
death in the ICU
* 4: Mitchell M. Levy: Making a personal relatinship with death
* Section II: The Decision to Limit Life Support in the ICU
* 5: Marin H. Kollef: Outcome prediction in the ICU
* 6: Deborah J. Cook: Decision-making and the role of bias
* 7: J. Randall Curtis and Donald L. Patrick: The role of health status
and quality of life in decisions about ICU care
* 8: Joan M. Teno: Advance care planning in the outpatient and ICU
setting
* Section III: Practical Skills Needed to Manage Death in the ICU
* 9: J. Randall Curtis and Donald L. Patrick: How to discuss dying and
death in the ICU
* 10: Kathleen Foley: Managnig pain and other symptoms in dying
patients in the ICU
* 11: Gordon D. Rubenfeld: Principles and practice of withdrawing life
sustaining treatment in the ICU
* 12: Kathleen Puntillo: The Role of critical care nurses in providing
and managing end-of-life care
* 13: Sarah E. Shannon: Helping families prepare for and cope with a
death in the ICU
* 14: Susan D. Block: Helping the clinician cope with death in the ICU
* 15: Nancy Chambers: The interface of technology and spriituality in
the ICU
* 16: Steven Miles: Sacred end-of-life rituals in the ICU
* Section IV: Societal Issues
* 17: Marion Danis: Role of race, ethnicity, religion, and
socioeconomic status on end-of-life care in the ICU
* 18: Marshal B. Kapp: Legal liability anxieties in the ICU
* 19: Peter Pronovost and Derek C. Angus: Economics of managing death
in te ICU
* 20: Barbara Daly: Organizational change and improving the quality of
palliative care in the ICU
* 21: Malcom Fisher: An interantional perspective on death in the ICU
* Section V: Specific Diseases and Special Populations
* 22: Mark J. Rosen: AIDS
* 23: Anthony Back: Cancer
* 24: Jonathon Sackner-Bernstein: Congestive heart failure
* 25: John E. Heffner: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
* 26: Eelco F.M. Wijdicks: Decisions to limit intensive care in
patients with coma
* 27: Walter M. Robinson: Special concerns for infants and children
* 28: Judith E. Nelson: Special Concerns for the very old