Palliative medicine in neonatal and pediatric intensive care.

Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am

Pediatric Advance Comfort Team, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital (Neonatology), 11111 Doctor's Office Tower, Nashville, TN 37232-9544, USA.

Published: July 2006

Patients and families in NICU and PICU settings can be well served by fundamental palliative care approaches during curative and end-of-life care.A wide variety of patients are suitable for these services. Although barriers exist to implementing these teams within the ICU, the concepts remain sound,and models for successful integration of practices in these settings exist.

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