ReviewPediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2014
Integrating palliative care into the PICU: a report from the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU Advisory Board.
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- Sources of Stress, Family Functioning, and Needs of Families With a Chronic Critically Ill Child: A Qualitative Study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
- Availability and Quality of Grief and Bereavement Care in Pediatric Intensive Care Units Around the World, Opportunities for Improvement.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
- The importance of advance care planning for children with chronic respiratory failure.Pediatric pulmonology · 2020Article
- Pediatric Palliative Transport in Critically Ill Children: A Single Center's Experience and Parents' Perspectives.Journal of pediatric intensive care · 2020Article
- Palliative Care in Children With Heart Disease Treated in an ICU.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2020Article
- Integration of Pediatric Palliative Care Into Cardiac Intensive Care: A Champion-Based Model.Pediatrics · 2019Article
- Interdisciplinary Communication: Documentation of Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care in Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer.Journal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis review highlights benefits that patients, families and clinicians can expect to realize when palliative care is intentionally incorporated into the PICU. DATA SOURCES: We searched the MEDLINE database from inception to January 2014 for English-language articles using the terms "palliative care" or "end of life care" or "supportive care" and "pediatric intensive care." We also hand-searched reference lists and author files and relevant tools on the Center to Advance Palliative Care website. STUDY SELECTION: Two authors (physicians with experience in pediatric intensive care and palliative care) made final selections. DATA EXTRACTION: We critically reviewed the existing data and tools to identify strategies for incorporating palliative care into the PICU. DATA SYNTHESIS: The Improving Palliative Care in the ICU Advisory Board used data and experience to address key questions relating to: pain and symptom management, enhancing quality of life, communication and decision-making, length of stay, sites of care, and grief and bereavement.
conclusionsPalliative care should begin at the time of a potentially life-limiting diagnosis and continue throughout the disease trajectory, regardless of the expected outcome. Although the PICU is often used for short term postoperative stabilization, PICU clinicians also care for many chronically ill children with complex underlying conditions and others receiving intensive care for prolonged periods. Integrating palliative care delivery into the PICU is rapidly becoming the standard for high quality care of critically ill children. Interdisciplinary ICU staff can take advantage of the growing resources for continuing education in pediatric palliative care principles and interventions.
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