Description
Many emergency clinicians encounter a gap in knowledge and skills when presented with serious life-threatening illness, particularly in patients with advanced and terminal illness. Over the last decade, studies have shown that patients who receive palliative care in the emergency setting have improved clinical outcomes with better symptom management, improved goal concordant care, and more effective resource utilization that delivers improved patient centered outcomes. Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine is intended to serve as a practical resource to the essential clinicians on the frontlines of emergency care.Dr. Quest brings together emergency medicine clinicians and palliative care subspecialists to discuss common, challenging cases that clinicians struggle with daily regarding care for patients and families experiencing serious, life threatening, and terminal illnesses. Each chapter opens with a typical emergency department clinical case, followed by a discussion, conclusion, and suggested readings that explore the topic in more depth. Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine equips emergency clinicians to meet seriously ill patients and family wherever they are and provide the best care possible.
Table of Contents
Preface1. Primary ED Palliative Care2. Trajectories and Prognostication3. Goals of Care Discussions4. Advance Directives and Advance Care Planning5. Dyspnea6. Nausea and Vomiting7. Cancer Pain8. Last Hours of Living9. Non-malignant and chronic pain10. Devices and Therapies11. Family Presence During Resuscitation12. Ventilator Withdrawal13. Death of a Child14. Hospice Referral from the ED15. Hospice Patient in the ED16. Cultural and Spiritual Considerations17. Ethical Aspects of Care18. Global Aspects of Palliative Care19. Prehospital Palliative Care20. Models of Care/Implementation of Palliative Care in the ED21. Palliative Care Consultation in the ED
