ArticlePediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2017
Pediatric Critical Care Transport as a Conduit to Terminal Extubation at Home: A Case Series.
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- Pediatric Palliative Transport in Critically Ill Children: A Single Center's Experience and Parents' Perspectives.Journal of pediatric intensive care · 2020Article
- Interdisciplinary Pediatric Palliative Care Team Involvement in Compassionate Extubation at Home: From Shared Decision-Making to Bereavement.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Palliative extubation: five-year experience in a pediatric hospital.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo present our single-center's experience with three palliative critical care transports home from the PICU for terminal extubation.
designWe performed a retrospective chart review of patients transported between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014.
settingAll cases were identified from our institutional pediatric transport database. PATIENTS: Patients were terminally ill children unable to separate from mechanical ventilation in the PICU, who were transported home for terminal extubation and end-of-life care according to their families' wishes.
interventionsPatients underwent palliative care transport home for terminal extubation. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsThe rate of palliative care transports home for terminal extubation during the study period was 2.6 per 100 deaths. The patients were 7 months, 6 years, and 18 years old and had complex chronic conditions. The transfer process was protocolized. The families were approached by the PICU staff during multidisciplinary goals-of-care meetings. Parental expectations were clarified, and home hospice care was arranged pretransfer. All transports were performed by our pediatric critical care transport team, and all terminal extubations were performed by physicians. All patients had unstable medical conditions and urgent needs for transport to comply with the families' wishes for withdrawal of life support and death at home. As such, all three cases presented similar logistic challenges, including establishing do-not-resuscitate status pretransport, having limited time to organize the transport, and coordinating home palliative care services with available community resources.
conclusionsAlthough a relatively infrequent practice in pediatric critical care, transport home for terminal extubation represents a feasible alternative for families seeking out-of-hospital end-of-life care for their critically ill technology-dependent children. Our single-center experience supports the need for development of formal programs for end-of-life critical care transports to include patient screening tools, palliative care home discharge algorithms, transport protocols, and resource utilization and cost analyses.
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