Overview
A guide to communicating with ICU patients and their families about end-of-life issues, with emphasis on global differences in attitudes toward death and the common goal of the most effective, comprehensible communication possible
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About this book
Talking to patients and their families about end-of-life issues can be difficult and stressful. End of Life Communication in the ICU looks at ways different cultures view death and then further explores how health care providers around the world communicate about such sensitive issues as withholding or withdrawing life support and discussing options when the outcome is uncertain. Through a better understanding of cultural differences in attitudes about death and methods of communications about end-of-life issues, practitioners can be better prepared to communicate with their own patients and their patients’ families.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This is multiauthored collection of perspectives on medical futility, its communication, and its management in the critical care setting. … Senior staff, fellows, and residents at all levels are an appropriate audience for this work which originates from a multinational set of authors with an interest in end-of-life care." (David J. Dries, Doody's Review Service, February, 2008)
"The book chronicles a wide range of views from practitioners, ethicists, historians, scientists, health care administrators, and consumers from around the world and examines how these interactions affect global health care delivery. The book is loosely organized into brief chapters that capture multinational perspectives on end-of-life care, resource management in critical care, and ethics. … offers the reader a cultural tour of end-of-life communication practices through the eyes of frontline practitioners." (Elaine C. Meyer, JAMA, October, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: End-of-Life Communication in the ICU
Book Subtitle: A Global Perspective
Editors: David W. Crippen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72966-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-72965-7Published: 30 November 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2502-2Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-72966-4Published: 27 November 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 180
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations