• Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · May 2009

    Treating cancer patients who are near the end of life in the emergency department.

    • Dawn Felch Rondeau and Terri A Schmidt.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, USA. rondeaud@ohsu.edu
    • Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2009 May 1;27(2):341-54.

    AbstractCancer-related visits to the emergency department (ED) can be expected to increase in the next decade as the population ages. Some of the these patients and their caregivers will come to the ED without prior end-of-life care planning, and others will require modification of prior plans based on disease progression. In this article, we discuss some of these end-of-life issues related to and including those of legal documents, transmission of patient wishes, limiting factors in implementing those wishes, and the new horizon of palliative care in the ED.

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