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Objective: To provide clinicians with evidence-based strategies to optimize the support of the
family of critically ill patients in the ICU. Methods: We used the Council of Medical Specialty …

Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to
infection (1). Sepsis and septic shock are major healthcare problems, impacting millions of …

Abstract The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic
Shock 2020 (J-SSCG 2020), a Japanese-specific set of clinical practice guidelines for sepsis …

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 …

Background There is a need for close communication with relatives of patients dying in the
intensive care unit (ICU). We evaluated a format that included a proactive end-of-life …

Background: There is controversy about how to manage requests by patients or surrogates
for treatments that clinicians believe should not be administered. Purpose: This multisociety …

Objective: To determine whether patient-and family-centered care interventions in the ICU
improve outcomes. Data Sources: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL …

Although advances in intensive care have enabled more patients to survive an acute critical
illness, they also have created a large and growing population of chronically critically ill …

Objectives: Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty as well as an approach to care by
all clinicians caring for patients with serious and complex illness. Unlike hospice, palliative …