Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:Addressing the quality gap in ICU-based palliative care is limited by uncertainty about acceptable models of collaborative specialist and generalist care. Therefore, we characterized the attitudes of physicians and nurses about palliative care delivery in an ICU environment. DESIGN:Mixed-methods study. SETTING:Medical and surgical ICUs at three large academic hospitals. PARTICIPANTS:Three hundred three nurses, intensivists, and advanced practice providers. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:Clinicians completed written surveys that assessed attitudes about specialist palliative care presence and integration into the ICU setting, as well as acceptability of 23 published palliative care prompts (triggers) for specialist consultation. Most (n = 225; 75%) reported that palliative care consultation was underutilized. Prompting consideration of eligibility for specialist consultation by electronic health record searches for triggers was most preferred (n = 123; 41%); only 17 of them (6%) felt current processes were adequate. The most acceptable specialist triggers were metastatic malignancy, unrealistic goals of care, end of life decision making, and persistent organ failure. Advanced age, length of stay, and duration of life support were the least acceptable. Screening led by either specialists or ICU teams was equally preferred. Central themes derived from qualitative analysis of 65 written responses to open-ended items included concerns about the roles of physicians and nurses, implementation, and impact on ICU team-family relationships. CONCLUSIONS:Integration of palliative care specialists in the ICU is broadly acceptable and desired. However, the most commonly used current triggers for prompting specialist consultation were among the least well accepted, while more favorable triggers are difficult to abstract from electronic health record systems. There is also disagreement about the role of ICU nurses in palliative care delivery. These findings provide important guidance to the development of collaborative care models for the ICU setting.
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Crit Care Medjournal_title
Critical care medicineauthors
Wysham NG,Hua M,Hough CL,Gundel S,Docherty SL,Jones DM,Reagan O,Goucher H,Mcfarlin J,Cox CEdoi
10.1097/CCM.0000000000002099subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-04-01 00:00:00pages
e372-e378issue
4eissn
0090-3493issn
1530-0293journal_volume
45pub_type
杂志文章,多中心研究abstract:OBJECTIVE:This study was done to assess the effects of temperature on bleeding time and clotting time in normal male and female volunteers. DESIGN:Open study utilizing normal volunteers. SETTING:University research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Fifty-four healthy male and female volunteers, ranging in age from 19 to 35 yrs, ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199504000-00019
更新日期:1995-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:When a patient is incompetent, the family is often considered to be a natural surrogate. The doctors' responsiveness to family wishes may vary. We explored if doctors' personal characteristics were associated with responsiveness to the relatives' wishes when admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) is consi...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181958409
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Position of the CVP port on a flow-directed balloon-tip pulmonary arterial catheter affects the accuracy of both thermodilution cardiac output determinations and CVP measurements. Systemic allometry (the study of the growth of a part in relation to the total organism) has been used to determine an easily measured inde...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198611000-00013
更新日期:1986-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine whether peptic activity in bronchoalveolar fluid, due to the presence of the gastric proteolytic enzyme pepsin, could serve as a biochemical marker for pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents. DESIGN:Prospective, experimental trial. SETTING:A university animal research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Th...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199611000-00019
更新日期:1996-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::As of October 1985, 37 candidates have passed the final examination in intensive care for the Diploma of Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FFARACS). In September 1984, 23 of these successful candidates responded to a questionnaire seeking information on their educational e...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198606000-00015
更新日期:1986-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Because an acute coronary thrombotic event may be viewed as the main trigger of sudden cardiac arrest, urgent coronary angiography followed by percutaneous coronary intervention appeared as a promising tool in the early postresuscitation phase. Unfortunately, large randomized trials, which have unequivocally demonstra...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/ccm.0b013e31818a8ae6
更新日期:2008-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the cardiovascular response and acute stress reaction after arousal induced by a benzodiazepine antagonist, flumazenil, in patients sedated with midazolam. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:Emergency center in a university hospital. PATIENTS:A total of 12 patients were ventilated mechanically ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200002000-00005
更新日期:2000-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that nebulized nitroprusside and inhaled nitric oxide would not differ in producing selective pulmonary vasodilation during hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in piglets. SETTING:University laboratory. SUBJECTS:Five piglets. INTERVENTIONS:Piglets (n = 5) were anesthetized and ins...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200211000-00026
更新日期:2002-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::We analyzed 35 samples of fresh frozen plasma (FFP), finding mean concentrations of 535 mg/dl glucose, 172 mEq/L sodium, 73 mEq/L chloride, 3.5 mEq/L potassium, 15 mEq/L bicarbonate, and 5.5 g/dl protein with 60% albumin. Thus, FFP is a hyperosmolal, hyperglycemic, hypernatremic, and hypochloremic solution which may b...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198602000-00015
更新日期:1986-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Treatment of preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) with exogenous surfactant has greatly improved clinical outcome. Some infants require multiple doses, and it has not been studied whether these large amounts of exogenous surfactant disturb endogenous surfactant metabolism in humans. We stu...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200010000-00001
更新日期:2000-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Capillary refill time is a noninvasive method to assess tissue perfusion to determine shock status. Capillary refill time is defined as the time required to regain skin color after blanching pressure is applied. Although common methods to measure capillary refill time depend on clinicians' visual assessment,...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000004506
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:A lack of intensive care units beds in Israel results in critically ill patients being treated outside of the intensive care unit. The survival of such patients is largely unknown. The present study's objective was to screen entire hospitals for newly deteriorated patients and compare their survival in and ou...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000253407.89594.15
更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To describe the dark side of pediatric intensive care fellowship training and offer educational approaches for understanding feelings of fallibility, anger, frustration, and loss. DATA SOURCES:Listening and observing fellows in the courses of their pediatric intensive care training and later careers. STUDY SE...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00003246-199305000-00023
更新日期:1993-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that hyperbaric oxygen therapy ameliorates delayed cognitive impairment after acute carbon monoxide poisoning by promoting neurogenesis through upregulating the brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the hippocampus. DESIGN:Laboratory animal experiments. SETTING:University/Medical cente...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000001299
更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine whether mortality rates among intensive care unit (ICU) patients differ according to the time of ICU admission, we compared the death rates for patients admitted during weekday day shifts and off hours (from 6:30 pm to 8:29 am the next day for night shifts, from Saturday 1:00 pm to Monday 8:29 am...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000249832.36518.11
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Cytokines and adhesion molecules have a decisive role in the development of early inflammatory response as well as the late sequelae of sepsis. Because L-selectin-deficient mice are protected from lethal endotoxemia, blockade of L-selectin may provide a useful therapeutic option in human sepsis. Heparin has i...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000059441.70680.DC
更新日期:2003-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:A 3-yr study funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was conducted to identify potential barriers to and opportunities for increasing the number hospitals with donation after cardiac death (DCD) protocols, the support of DCD by individuals involved in the donation request process, and the n...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181691b2b
更新日期:2008-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of the technique of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in preventing the development of secondary infection and its influence on morbidity and mortality rates in multiple trauma patients with chest injuries requiring intermittent positive-pressure ventilation. DESIGN:Pr...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00003246-199401000-00010
更新日期:1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between the performance of a tracheostomy and intensive care unit and postintensive care unit mortality, controlling for treatment selection bias and confounding variables. DESIGN:Prospective, observational, cohort study. SETTING:Twelve French medical or surgical intensive care un...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000251134.96055.A6
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:The acute respiratory distress syndrome may complicate postpartum hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation, but its mechanisms are not yet well defined. We studied the lung inflammatory response to postpartum hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation in a rabbit model and the role of the nuclear factor-κB pathway. DESI...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182451c17
更新日期:2012-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine whether plasma lipid hydroperoxides may be a useful marker for sepsis. DESIGN:Exploratory, open-label study. SETTING:Critical care unit at a university medical center. PATIENTS:Twelve patients with sepsis syndrome requiring hemodynamic monitoring with pulmonary artery catheters. Seven patients...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199109000-00004
更新日期:1991-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To assess the possible benefits of sympatholytics on uncontrolled hemorrhage in unanesthetized rats. DESIGN:A randomized laboratory study using rats to test the effects of sympatholytics on uncontrolled hemorrhage. SETTING:Research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Forty female Sprague-Dawley rats, randomly assigned in...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199909000-00025
更新日期:1999-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We sought to review findings from recent literature on the postresuscitation care of cardiac arrest patients using therapeutic hypothermia as part of nontrial treatment. DESIGN:Literature review. SETTING:Hospital-based environment. SUBJECTS:Patients initially resuscitated from cardiac arrest who underwent...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181aa5c7c
更新日期:2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of continuous infusion of methylene blue (MB), an inhibitor of the nitric oxide pathway, on hemodynamics and organ functions in human septic shock. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled, open-label, pilot study. SETTING:Multidisciplinary intensive care unit of a university hospi...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00003246-200110000-00002
更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle has been characterized in septic shock (SS) and sepsis without shock (SWS), diastolic abnormalities are less well characterized. Diastolic filling was determined using pulsed Doppler transmitral spectral tracings in 13 patients with SS, ten patients with SWS, and 33 ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199007000-00005
更新日期:1990-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To review the intensive care unit experience of patients with admitted or acquired nosocomial endocarditis (NE) defined according to the Duke criteria. DESIGN:Prospective, cohort study. SETTING:University teaching hospital. PATIENTS:We reviewed the records of 22 patients documented with NE during a 6-yr p...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200002000-00015
更新日期:2000-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Mannitol is widely used in hospitals worldwide to treat patients with high intracranial pressure and/or cerebral edema. One of the mechanisms by which mannitol is thought to affect intracranial pressure is by increasing the patient's serum osmolarity, but not the osmolarity in the brain or cerebrospinal fluid...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000050287.68977.84
更新日期:2003-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A small, double-blind crossover study compared the efficacy of aminophylline and doxapram in ventilator weaning of eight premature infants recovering from respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Although neither drug was significantly better than the other, four infants were weaned from mechanical ventilation after drug ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198502000-00016
更新日期:1985-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nine ventilator-dependent patients were successfully weaned from mechanical ventilatory support by high-frequency jet ventilation. All patients had been on ventilatory support for at least 2 wk, and had not responded to attempts at weaning by intermittent mandatory ventilation. ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198409000-00021
更新日期:1984-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Prolonged artificial ventilation may result in worsening gas exchange and pulmonary compliance in patients with otherwise normal lungs. Prolonged hyperinflations to 40 cm H2O can completely reverse deterioration of gas exchange and compliance in such patients. Similar efforts have effectively recruited atelectatic lun...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198712000-00001
更新日期:1987-12-01 00:00:00