A Model for Emergency Department End-of-life Communications After Acute Devastating Eventsu-Part II: Moving From Resuscitative to End-of-life or Palliative Treatment

作者：Limehouse Walter E^*; Feeser V Ramana; Bookman Kelly J; Derse Arthur

来源：Academic Emergency Medicine, 2012, 19(11): 1300-1308.

DOI：10.1111/acem.12018

The model for emergency department (ED) end-of-life communications after acute devastating events addresses decision-making capacity, surrogates, and advance directives, including legal definitions and application of these steps. Part II concerns communications moving from resuscitative to palliative and end-of-life treatments. After completing the steps involved in determining decision-making, emergency physicians (EPs) should consider starting palliative measures versus continuing resuscitative treatment. As communications related to these end-of-life decisions increasingly fall within the scope of emergency medicine (EM) practice, we need to become educated about and comfortable with them.

• 出版日期2012-11