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Med Crit 2025; 39 (4)

Palliative care in the intensive care unit… Necessity or utopia?

Martínez-Sedas GD

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 272-275
PDF size: 230.75 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Palliative care and intensive care unit (ICU) management have historically been viewed as opposing approaches or objectives. The increased survival rate of patients with palliative needs, such as those with heart failure, cancer, and infectious diseases, among others, has meant that these patients require admission to the ICU at some point during the course of their illness. Therefore, current strategies for managing critically ill patients in the ICU not only consider the need for physical care but also choose not to ignore emotional and spiritual needs, finding palliative care an excellent tool to meet all the needs of patients during their ICU stay.


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