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Neurocrit Care
January 2025
Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the older adult population, and palliative care consultation can assist in goals-of-care discussions. However, patterns of hospital care delivered before consultation are understudied for older adult patients with TBI. The objective of this study was to identify demographic and clinical drivers of preconsultation care intensity in this population.
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January 2025
Department of Cardiology, University & Hospital Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Background: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) procedures are rapidly expanding, necessitating a more extensive stratification of patients with aortic stenosis. Especially in the high-risk group, some patients fail to derive optimal or any benefits from TAVI, leading to the risk of futile interventions. Despite consensus among several experts regarding the importance of recognizing and anticipating such interventions, the definition, and predictive criteria for futility in TAVI remain ambiguous.
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November 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Cancer Institute, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Decisions on life-sustaining treatment depend on evaluating fundamental ethical principles regarding taking human life. This study aimed to compare the Islamic standpoint with secular views on ethical decision-making in end-of-life care. We conducted a scoping review to analyze and compare articles published in 2000-2022, regarding ethical criteria for withdrawing life-prolonging treatments in dying patients, and the final decision-maker in such cases.
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October 2024
GRADY HEALTH SYSTEM, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA.
The authors consider the legal and ethical considerations of offering a time-limited trial of a potentially non-beneficial intervention in the setting of patient or surrogate requests to pursue aggressive treatment. The likelihood of an intervention's success is rarely a zero-sum game, and an intervention's risk-to-benefit ratio may be indiscernible without further information (often, a matter of time).
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December 2024
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA.
The Triple Aim of health care involves the simultaneous pursuit of improving the individual experience of care, population health, and reducing per capita costs of care. Our institution established a Mortality Review Committee (MRC) to review instances of inpatient mortality as part of continuing quality improvement with the goal of improving goal concordant care. In this article, we report the experience of MRC.
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