Search Tag: end-of-life decision making
2022 13 Sep
There are laws regulating healthcare practice at the end of life. Most healthcare professionals rely on their clinical knowledge to inform treatment decisions during this time. However, the extent to which the law informants their decision-making at the end of life remains uncertain. In this study, the researchers describe what healthcare professionals...Read more
2021 12 Oct
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have implemented policies that limit family presence. In a recent analysis, researchers aimed to determine whether a restrictive visitor policy inadvertently lengthened the decision-making process for dying inpatients without COVID-19. The primary outcome of the study was ICU length of stay. Secondary...Read more
2020 22 Oct
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted the public to become more aware of and interested in advance care planning, with a growing number of patients exerting efforts to have their wishes properly documented so that they would be respected, finds a new study (Funk et al. 2020). You might also like: Critical Care at the End of Life: A Study...Read more
2018 23 Jan
Guidance from the Canadian Critical Care Society aims to guide and educate the multidisciplinary intensive care unit (ICU) team and all involved in end-of-life decision making on the background to withdrawal or withholding of life sustaining treatment. The authors emphasise that any form of life-sustaining treatment (LST) should be considered a trial...Read more