Feasibility study protocol: implementing consultation-based high-quality palliative care services in intensive care units.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs) receive life-sustaining treatments aimed at restoring or maintaining organ function. ICU admission often involves substantial multidimensional suffering that can burden patients, their families and surrogates. Multidisciplinary palliative care support can help alleviate their sufferings. In South Korea, however, palliative care has not yet been integrated into critical care settings, highlighting the need to explore the feasibility of its implementation within the ICU.

Methods and analysis

This study aims to test the feasibility of a consultation-based palliative care intervention in the ICU. The study will include 20 patients admitted to the ICU of a tertiary hospital due to sudden severe acute brain injury

SUBMITTER: Jeung YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12121608 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature