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- Shared Decision Making in Adult Critical Care
- Shared Decision Making in Adult Critical Care
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 When Does Shared Decision-Making Apply in Adult Critical Care?
- Chapter 2 How Much Does the Family Want to Be Involved in Decision-Making?
- Chapter 3 Show Me the Data
- Chapter 4 Communication Skills for Critical Care Family Meetings
- Chapter 5 The Do-Not-Resuscitate Order
- Chapter 6 The Do-Not-Intubate Order
- Chapter 7 Prolonged Ventilator Dependence for the Pulmonary Patient
- Chapter 8 Renal Replacement Therapy
- Chapter 9 Shared Decision-Making during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Chapter 10 Hypoxic–Ischemic Brain Injury after Cardiac Arrest
- Chapter 11 Decompressive Craniectomy for Stroke Patients
- Chapter 12 Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients
- Chapter 13 Severe Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
- Chapter 14 Potentially Inappropriate Treatment and Conscientious Objection
- Chapter 15 Shared Decision-Making in Emergent Situations
- Chapter 16 Advance Directives
- Chapter 17 Care of the Unbefriended Patient
- Chapter 18 The Role of Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 19 Measuring and Evaluating Shared Decision-Making in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 20 Brain Death Discussions
- Index
- References
Chapter 5 - The Do-Not-Resuscitate Order
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
- Shared Decision Making in Adult Critical Care
- Shared Decision Making in Adult Critical Care
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 When Does Shared Decision-Making Apply in Adult Critical Care?
- Chapter 2 How Much Does the Family Want to Be Involved in Decision-Making?
- Chapter 3 Show Me the Data
- Chapter 4 Communication Skills for Critical Care Family Meetings
- Chapter 5 The Do-Not-Resuscitate Order
- Chapter 6 The Do-Not-Intubate Order
- Chapter 7 Prolonged Ventilator Dependence for the Pulmonary Patient
- Chapter 8 Renal Replacement Therapy
- Chapter 9 Shared Decision-Making during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Chapter 10 Hypoxic–Ischemic Brain Injury after Cardiac Arrest
- Chapter 11 Decompressive Craniectomy for Stroke Patients
- Chapter 12 Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients
- Chapter 13 Severe Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
- Chapter 14 Potentially Inappropriate Treatment and Conscientious Objection
- Chapter 15 Shared Decision-Making in Emergent Situations
- Chapter 16 Advance Directives
- Chapter 17 Care of the Unbefriended Patient
- Chapter 18 The Role of Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 19 Measuring and Evaluating Shared Decision-Making in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 20 Brain Death Discussions
- Index
- References
Summary
An 81-year-old woman with a history of non-alcoholic cirrhosis, refractory ascites, and previous variceal bleeding was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with septic shock from spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. She arrived from the emergency department on moderate vasopressor support with norepinephrine and vasopressin. She had no family with her, but was alert enough to participate in the history being obtained. She reported that her quality of life had been gradually decreasing over the past year. She had been admitted to the ICU with septic shock and gastrointestinal bleeding two times over the past 6 months. As part of your routine ICU admission process, you approach her to discuss code status, including her preferences for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the case of in-hospital cardiac arrest. She asked you to do everything to help her get better – and that seeing her six grandchildren grow up is her greatest joy in life.
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- Shared Decision Making in Adult Critical Care , pp. 29 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021