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End-of-life decisions: how do patients die in the ICU?

2015; BioMed Central; Volume: 19; Issue: S1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/cc14648

1466-609X

S Barbosa, Pedro Cavaleiro, J Guedes, Sílvia Castro, Cristina Granja,

Disaster Response and Management

One of the main goals of intensive care medicine is to reduce the mortality of critically ill patients. However, it is essential to recognize end-of-life care as an integral component of critical care. Besides survival, the success of intensive care should also include the quality of lives preserved and the quality of dying. The objective of this study was to evaluate the incidence and type of end-of-life decisions (ELD) in critical patients that died in an ICU.