Palliative Care in the ICU, Surgery and Trauma

RESOURCES AND INFORMATION

SURGERY/INTENSIVE CARE AND PALLIATIVE CARE

• ACS TQIP Palliative Care Guidelines
• ACS TQIP Geriatric Trauma Management Guidelines
• Surgical Palliative Care: A resident's guide(pdf)
• IPAL-ICU - Improving Palliative Care in the ICU
• G60 Trauma

PALLIATIVE CARE

• capc.org - Center to Advance Palliative Care
• Get Palliative Care
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• National Consensus Project (NCP) Guidelines
• National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality - National Quality Forum (NQF)
• Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin Fast Facts

ADVANCED CARE PLANNING

• Prepare for Your Care
  • Prepare for Your Care- Advanced Directive
• POLST California
• End-of-Life Care Planning, Office of the Attorney General- California
• California Emergency Medical Services Authority - DNR and POLST- resources and questions

PROGNOSTICATION TOOLS

ICU

• APACHE II Score
• Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) Score

GENERAL/ACUTE CARE SURGERY

• American Society of Anesthesiologists Score (ASA)
• NSQIP Risk Calculator
• qSOFA Score (Sepsis)

TRAUMA

• Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)
• Organ Injury Scales
• Injury Severity Score (ISS) Calculator
• Revised Trauma Score (RTS) Calculator
• TRISS Calculator
• Glasgow Coma Score
• Glasgow Paediatric Coma Score
• Glasgow Outcome Score
• TBI-IMPACT Risk Calculator
• TBI-CRASH Risk Calculator

GERIATRICS/FRAILTY SCORES

• ECOG score
• Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score
• • GTO Score=age+(2.5×ISS)+22 (if given PRBCs)
• UCSD modified Frailty Score
  
• • UCSD Geriatric Protocol Guideline link
• Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)

ARTICLES

• Coming soon

UCSD TRAUMA HANDBOOK

• Talking to SICU Families
• Guide to SICU Family Meetings
• Indications for Palliative (Howell Service Consult)

UCSD MCP's

• Do Not Attempt to Resuscitate orders
• Brain Death Protocol
• Non-beneficial Care
• Medical Ethics Consultation
• Limitation of Life Sustaining Treatment
• POLST
• Advance Directives

TRAINING VIDEOS

• Understanding code status: Full Code, DNR, DNI - Ryan Greine r
• CAPC Videos and Podcast
  
• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Webinar Series - Palliative Care in the ICU: Communication Skills in Practice

TED Talks

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