Caring for dying patients in the intensive care unit: Managing Pain, Dyspnea, Anxiety, Delirium, and Death Rattle

AACN Advanced Critical Care

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 110-120

  Campbell, Margaret L ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; critical care; death rattle; delirium; dyspnea; pain

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; ANALGESIA; ANXIETY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NURSING; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; TERMINAL CARE;

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; ANXIETY; CRITICAL CARE NURSING; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84940198482     PISSN: 15597768     EISSN: 15597776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCI.0000000000000077     Document Type: Article

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