Home extubation by a pediatric critical care team: Providing a compassionate death outside the pediatric intensive care unit

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 401-403

  Needle, Jennifer Susan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; End of life; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING; CASE REPORT; CHILD DEATH; EXTUBATION; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PARENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; REVIEW; SPIRITUAL CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

EID: 77952311797     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181c0143f     Document Type: Review

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