Search Tag: palliative care

2025 14 Oct

This article illustrates two cases of critically ill patients where protracted and burdensome life-saving measures led to discord and moral distress among the ICU team, eventually mitigated by eliciting clear goals and wishes from the patient despite the plan of care and clinical interventions remaining unchanged. The takeaway in these cases is how...Read more

2025 24 Jul

Implementing an AI screening tool in our ICU for palliative care consults streamlined early alignment of treatment with patient goals, decreased futile interventions, and demonstrated scalable, value-based, patient-centric critical care delivery.   Introduction This special edition of Value-Based Critical Care highlights innovative approaches...Read more

2025 14 Jul

Leading medical royal colleges representing senior cancer doctors have called for urgent action to expand and integrate acute and supportive oncology services across the NHS to meet the evolving needs of people living with cancer.     In two statements published today, 14 July 2025, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), the Royal College of...Read more

2017 22 Nov

Palliative care for critically ill patients in the intensive care unit is increasingly in the mainstream, and palliative care principles are vital to ensure comprehensive patient care. ICU Management & Practice spoke to Caroline J. Hurd, MD, Director of Education Operations at UW Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, about the purpose of...Read more