Book Details

End-of-Life Communication in the ICU : A Global Perspective

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-0-387-72966-4

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The book examines how different cultures view death and explores how healthcare providers around the world communicate to patients and family members such sensitive issues as withholding or withdrawing life support and discussing options when the outcome is uncertain.


Subject: Medicine, care, critical care, intensive care, physiology, stress, Intensive, Critical Care Medicine