Intensive care unit (ICU) admissions are often accompanied by many physical and
existential pressure points that can be extraordinarily wearing on patients and their families …

Objective: Although the majority of hospital deaths occur in the intensive care unit and
virtually all critically ill patients and their families have palliative needs, we know little about …

Palliative care is a core component of comprehensive care for patients facing critical illness,
regardless of age, diagnosis, or prognosis. Key domains of intensive care unit (ICU) …

A growing body of literature suggests that many patients in intensive care units (ICUs) have
inadequately controlled symptoms near the end of life [1–5]. There is also evidence that the …

Objectives: Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty as well as an approach to care by
all clinicians caring for patients with serious and complex illness. Unlike hospice, palliative …

From the inception of the intensive care unit (ICU), endof-life care has always been
delivered in this setting due to the high severity of illness of the patients. Approximately 50 …

Key principles of palliative care shed light on future opportunities and challenges for
improving patient care and family support within critical care. Interdisciplinary team …

Palliative care is expanding its role into the surgical intensive care units (SICU). Embedding
palliative philosophies of care into SICUs has considerable potential to improve the quality …

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a setting where death is—unfortunately—common. In the
United States, approximately 20% of deaths occur in or shortly after a stay in the ICU, and …

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care to optimize physical, psychosocial, and spiritual
symptoms of patients and their families whose quality of life is impaired by serious, life …