Patients with limitation or withdrawal of life supporting care admitted in a medico-surgical intermediate care unit: Prevalence, description and outcome over a six-month period.
Perrine MolmyNicolas VangrunderbeeckOlivier NigeonMalcolm LemyzeDidier TheveninJihad MallatPublished in: PloS one (2019)
Patients with limitation of LSC are frequently admitted into IMCU. Hospital mortality rate was high and associated with age, acute organ failures, and hypoxemic respiratory failure. Life support withdrawal includes palliative sedation with or without NIV discontinuation.
Keyphrases
- respiratory failure
- mechanical ventilation
- palliative care
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- healthcare
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- risk factors
- quality improvement
- intensive care unit
- advanced cancer
- cardiovascular events
- affordable care act
- pain management
- emergency department
- cardiovascular disease
- coronary artery disease
- health insurance
- adverse drug
- hepatitis b virus
- electronic health record