• Dimens Crit Care Nurs · Jul 2011

    A personal reflection: the slippery slope of hope.

    • Mark Stambovsky.
    • Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. interluk@comcast.net
    • Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2011 Jul 1; 30 (4): 196-7.

    AbstractSometimes, families and patients compel intensive care unit clinicians to continue aggressive therapies even when the odds of patient recovery are grim. This experienced critical-care nurse suggests that such scenarios are more likely when clinicians use imprecise or ambiguous language when discussing patient prognoses.

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