SCCM Pod-513: Current Concepts: Effective, Culturally Sensitive End-of-Life Discussions
This is the fourth episode of SCCM’s Current Concepts Series. Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by Kwame A. Akuamoah-Bo...
Management of the Potential Organ Donor in the ICU
This document was developed through the collaborative efforts of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and ...
Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units
An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement.
Defining Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Interventions
The Society of Critical Care Medicine and four other major critical care organizations have endorsed a seven-step process to resolve disagreements abo...
Texas In-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: New Law, New Changes
In-hospital do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in the State of Texas have faced much tighter regulation since April 2018. With Senate Bill 11, both the m...
SCCM Pod-41 CCM: Tough Decisions at the End of Life
Douglas White, MD, discusses his article in the August issue of Critical Care Medicine, "Decisions to Limit Life-Sustaining Treatment for Critica...
SCCM Pod-85 PCCM: Organ Donation After Cardiac Death - Part 1
Peter C. Laussen, MD, discusses an article published in the May 2007 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled "Pediatric Staff Perspecti...
SCCM Pod-88 PCCM: Organ Donation After Cardiac Death - Part 2
Martha A.Q. Curley, RN, PhD, discusses an article published in the May 2007 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, "Pediatric Staff Perspecti...
SCCM Pod-90 New End-of-Life Guidelines
Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, discusses new guidelines published in the March 2008 issue of Critical Care Medicine, "Recommendations for End-of-Life C...
SCCM Pod-114 CCM: Why Not Physician-Assisted Death
Constantine A. Manthous, MD, associate clinical professor of medicine at Bridgeport Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine in Connecticut, di...
SCCM Pod-115 PCCM: Difficult Conversations in the Pediatric ICU
Elaine Meyer, RN, PhD, discusses a paper published recently in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled “Difficult Conversations: Improving Comm...
SCCM Pod-134 CCM: Resolving End-of-Life Conflicts in the ICU
John M. Luce, MD, FCCM, discusses his latest article, “A History of Resolving Conflicts Over End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units in the Uni...
SCCM Pod-189: Expanding Palliative Care Training for Fellows
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Alyssa Majesko, MD, MS, about her article published in the August Critical Connections, which discusses...
SCCM Pod-191 CCM: Perceptions of Organ Donation
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Joanne L. Hart, MD, about her article published in the September Critical Care Medicine, “Percept...
SCCM Pod-217 CCM: Trends in Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the ICU
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH, to discuss the article, “Hospital Variation and Temporal Trends in Pa...
SCCM Pod-228 CCM: Screening Criteria for Palliative Care
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Judith Nelson, MD, JD, lead author on an article published in the October Critical Care Medicine, &ldqu...
SCCM Pod-262 44th Critical Care Congress: End-of-Life Costs and Logistics
Ludwig H. Lin, MD, speaks with Dan R. Thompson, MD, MA, MCCM, Professor of Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Bioethics at Albany Medical College in Albany,...
SCCM Pod-270 Quality of Communication in the ICU and Surrogate’s Understanding of Prognosis*
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Jared Chiarchiaro, MD, about the article, “Quality of Communication in the ICU and Surrogate&rsqu...
SCCM Pod-286 Clinical Practice Guideline on Management of the Critically Ill Organ Donor
Michael S. Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCM, speaks with Gerard J. Fulda, MD, about the guideline, “Management of the Potential Organ Donor in the ICU:...
SCCM Pod-402 Early Palliative Care Consultations in the ICU
Kyle B. Enfield, MD, and Marin H. Kollef, MD, discuss the findings and design of the cluster randomized crossover trial on early palliative care consu...