Critical Care Teaching
  • Welcome
  • Week 1: Induction
    • NUH Critical Care
    • UHL Critical Care
  • Airway and breathing
    • Week 2: Airway and oxygenation
    • Week 3: Ventilation
    • Week 4: Weaning and rehabilitation
    • Week 5: Challenging scenarios in ventilation
  • Cardiac disease and physiology
    • Week 6: Cardiovascular manipulation
    • Week 7: Cardiac arrest and post-arrest management
    • Week 8: Cardiology on intensive care
    • Week 9: Renal replacement therapy
  • Neurointensive care
    • Week 10: Head injuries
    • Week 11: Confusion, delirium, and strokes
    • Week 12: Seizures and encephalitis
    • Week 13: Brain stem death, devastating brain injuries, and organ donation
  • Everything else
    • Week 14: Fluids and nutrition
    • Week 15: Surgical principles on intensive care
    • Week 16: Marginal gains and critical care
    • Week 17: Everything sepsis
  • Surgical specialities month
    • Week 18: Upper GI and thoracic surgery
    • Week 19: Major trauma and burns
    • Week 20: Massive intra-abdominal surgery
    • Week 21: Maternity and obstetrics
  • Medical Specialities Month
    • Week 22: Haematology and oncology
    • Week 23: Respiratory medicine
    • Week 24: Microbiology
    • Week 25: End of life care on intensive care
  • Wrapping up
    • Week 26: Reflect, and pay it forward
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  1. Medical Specialities Month

Week 25: End of life care on intensive care

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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

  • (Palliative Care Australia)

  • (BJA editorial)

  • (JICS)

  • and (BJAEd)

  • (NHSBT ODT)

  • (GMC)

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Talking about end-of-life in the ICU
"Withdrawal" vs palliation
Palliative care in the ICU
EOL care
treatment withdrawal in ICU
End of life care best practice guidelines
Treatment and care towards the end of life
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