Week 25: End of life care on intensive care

Things to consider

• Limits of treatments, DNACPR, and "Respect" forms

• How to approach an end of life discussion

• When to involve palliative care? When to involve SNODs?

• Pharmacology of palliation

• What does withdrawal of life sustaining treatment look like?

Resources

• Talking about end-of-life in the ICU (Palliative Care Australia)

• "Withdrawal" vs palliation (BJA editorial)

• Palliative care in the ICU (JICS)

• EOL care and treatment withdrawal in ICU (BJAEd)

• End of life care best practice guidelines (NHSBT ODT)

• Treatment and care towards the end of life (GMC)

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