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- Title
Enabling ICU patients to die at home.
- Authors
Battle, Emma; Bates, Lucy; Liderth, Emma; Jones, Samantha; Sheen, Sheryl; Ginty, Andrew; Northmore, Melanie
- Abstract
There is often an overlap between intensive care medicine and palliative medicine. When all curative treatment options have been explored, keeping the patient comfortable and free from pain is the main concern for healthcare practitioners. Patient autonomy in end of life decisions has not been encouraged in the intensive care unit (ICU), until now, because of its specialised and technical nature. Staff at the Royal Bolton Hospital have broken down the barriers to enabling ICU patients to die in their own homes, and have developed a system of collaborative working that can help to fulfil a patient’s final wish to go home. This article describes how ICU staff developed a process that enabled two ventilated patients to be transferred home for end of life care.
- Subjects
DEATH; HOME care services; INTENSIVE care units; TERMINAL care; DISCHARGE planning
- Publication
Nursing Standard, 2014, Vol 29, Issue 5, p46
- ISSN
0029-6570
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7748/ns.29.5.46.e8971