Palliative Care in the ICU, Surgery and Trauma

Resources and Information

Surgery/ Intensive Care and Pallative 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

Pallative Care

• capc.org - Center to Advance Palliative Care
• Get Palliative Care
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• National Consensus Project (NCP) Guidelines
• 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 

Intensive Care Unit

• 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/ Frality Scores

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

Articles

• Coming soon

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

Vital Talk

• Website
• iOS App
• VitalTalk Blog