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SUBMITTER: Mercadante S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6094470 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mercadante Sebastiano S Gregoretti Cesare C Cortegiani Andrea A
BMC anesthesiology 20180816 1
Palliative care is patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering when "curative" therapies are futile. In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), critically ill patients receive life-sustaining therapies with the goal of restoring or maintaining organ function. Palliative Care in the ICU is a widely discussed topic and it is increasingly applied in clinics. It encompasses symptoms control and end-of-life management, communication with ...[more]