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- Title
Emergency Palliative Care: Severe Acute Neurological Injury With Poor Prognosis.
- Authors
Gacioch, Brian; Neugarten, Carter; Searls, David Eric; DeSandre, Paul
- Abstract
In this segment of the emergency palliative care case series, we present a patient who arrives at a small community emergency department with acute intracranial hemorrhage, aspiration, and respiratory failure. Usual care includes aggressive airway management with intubation and mechanical ventilation, and a recommendation from stroke neurologists and neurosurgeons at the tertiary care center to transfer the patient. The patient's wife has some understanding that the prognosis is likely to be poor, and asks that the patient not be transferred if he is unlikely to return to independent function. A general neurologist is consulted to provide a prognostic opinion, and goals-of-care discussions are facilitated by a palliative care consultant. After expedited evaluation, the neurologist provides a prognostic assessment, while the palliative care clinician explores potential next steps with the patient's wife, based upon his known goals and values, ultimately leading to high-value goal-concordant end-of-life care for the patient and his family.
- Subjects
BENZODIAZEPINES; INTRACRANIAL hemorrhage; PALLIATIVE treatment; CRITICALLY ill; PATIENTS; NEUROLOGISTS; RESPIRATORY insufficiency; EMERGENCY medical services; HOSPITAL emergency services; TRANQUILIZING drugs; DECISION making; TREATMENT effectiveness; TRACHEA intubation; ARTIFICIAL respiration; DISEASE complications; AIRWAY (Anatomy); TERMINAL care; EXTUBATION; MEDICAL referrals
- Publication
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2024, Vol 27, Issue 4, p572
- ISSN
1096-6218
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jpm.2023.0191