The current pandemic has necessitated immediate changes in how conversations about death and illness occur. Routine face-to-face communication between professionals, patients and their families is now impossible, with a sudden, unplanned shift to a reliance on telephone calls.
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Having read an article about a critically ill intensive care patient terrified when they couldn’t understand what the healthcare team were saying through their personal protective equipment, Rachael Grimaldi, an…
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Many, many healthcare staff are having to hold urgent phone or video call conversations about witholding, or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments in critical care, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Download Prompt Sheet as PDF Telling a patient’s loved ones of the patient’s death is perhaps the most momentous and challenging task for a healthcare practitioner. The news…
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