Expanding elderly populations are a major social challenge in advanced countries
worldwide and have led to a rapid increase in the number of elderly patients in intensive …

Experiencing the end of life of a family member in the intensive care unit is clearly difficult.
An important role of critical care nurses is to help family members through this challenging …

Abstract Background Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses in Korea often experience
challenges in providing care for dying infants and their families. However, there is limited …

Objectives: To develop an enhanced understanding of factors that influence providers' views
about end-of-life care, we examined the contributions of provider, hospital, and country to …

Background In emergency departments, for some patients, death is preceded by a decision
of withholding or withdrawing life‐sustaining treatments. This concerns mainly patients over …

Aim The out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and cardiac arrest hospital prognosis (CAHP)
scores were developed for early neuroprognostication after OHCA. Calculation of both …

Consider the hypothetical case of a 75-year-old patient admitted to the intensive care unit
(ICU) for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to pneumonia and systolic heart failure …

Abstract Background: End-of-life (EOL) care in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) can
vary depending on religious beliefs of health care providers and families as well as the …

Background To identify the necessary care for dying patients in intensive care units (ICUs),
we designed a retrospective study to evaluate the quality of dying and death (QODD) …

Objective The aim of this study was to determine whether do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders
affect outcomes in patients with sepsis admitted to intensive care unit (ICU). Design This is a …