End-of-life issues in the acute and critically ill patient

The challenges of end-of-life care require emergency physicians to utilize a multifaceted and dynamic skill set. Such skills include medical therapies to relieve pain and other symptoms near the end-of-life. Physicians must also demonstrate aptitude in comfort care, communication, cultural competenc...

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Autores principales: Savory, Eric A, Marco, Catherine A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2678074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19386133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-17-21
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description The challenges of end-of-life care require emergency physicians to utilize a multifaceted and dynamic skill set. Such skills include medical therapies to relieve pain and other symptoms near the end-of-life. Physicians must also demonstrate aptitude in comfort care, communication, cultural competency, and ethical principles. It is imperative that emergency physicians demonstrate a fundamental understanding of end-of-life issues in order to employ the versatile, multidisciplinary approach required to provide the highest quality end-of-life care for patients and their families.
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spelling pubmed-26780742009-05-07 End-of-life issues in the acute and critically ill patient Savory, Eric A Marco, Catherine A Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med Review The challenges of end-of-life care require emergency physicians to utilize a multifaceted and dynamic skill set. Such skills include medical therapies to relieve pain and other symptoms near the end-of-life. Physicians must also demonstrate aptitude in comfort care, communication, cultural competency, and ethical principles. It is imperative that emergency physicians demonstrate a fundamental understanding of end-of-life issues in order to employ the versatile, multidisciplinary approach required to provide the highest quality end-of-life care for patients and their families. BioMed Central 2009-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2678074/ /pubmed/19386133 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-17-21 Text en Copyright © 2009 Savory and Marco; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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