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Managing death in the ICU : the transition from cure to comfort /

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 recieved, The book also addresses the changing epidemiology of death in th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Curtis, J. Randall, Rubenfeld, Gordon D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Introducing the concept of managing death in the ICU
  • Ch. 2. The changing ethics of death in the ICU
  • Ch. 3. The changing nature of death in the ICU
  • Ch. 4. Making a personal relationship with death
  • Ch. 5. Outcome prediction in the ICU
  • Ch. 6. Transdisciplinary research to understand the role of bias and heuristics
  • Ch. 7. The role of quality of life and health status in making decisions about withdrawing life-sustaining treatments in the ICU
  • Ch. 8. Advance care planning in the outpatient and ICU setting
  • Ch. 9. How to discuss dying and death in the ICU
  • Ch. 10. Pain and symptom control in the dying ICU patient
  • Ch. 11. Principles and practice of withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in the ICU
  • Ch. 12. The role of critical care nurses in providing and managing end-of-life care
  • Ch. 13. Helping families prepare for and cope with a death in the ICU
  • Ch. 14. Helping the clinician cope with death in the ICU
  • Ch. 15. The Interface of technology and spirituality in the ICU.
  • Ch. 16. The role of the physician in sacred end-of-life rituals in the ICU
  • Ch. 17. The roles of ethnicity, race, religion, and socioeconomic status in end-of-life care in the ICU
  • Ch. 18. Legal liability anxieties in the ICU
  • 19. Economics of managing death in the ICU
  • Ch. 20. Organizational change and improving the quality of palliative care in the ICU
  • Ch. 21. An international perspective on death in the ICU
  • Ch. 22. AIDS
  • Ch. 23. Cancer
  • Ch. 24. Congestive heart failure
  • Ch. 25. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Ch. 26. Decisions to limit intensive care in patients with coma
  • Ch. 27. Special concerns for infants and children
  • Ch. 28. Special concerns for the very old.