TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelemen, Anne
AU  - Rao, Anirudh
TI  - Lessons Learned from Caring for Patients with COVID-19 at the End of Life
SN  - 1557-7740
PY  - 2021///
KW  - *COVID-19/mo [Mortality]
KW  - *COVID-19/nu [Nursing]
KW  - *COVID-19/px [Psychology]
KW  - *Hospice Care/px [Psychology]
KW  - *Nursing Staff, Hospital/px [Psychology]
KW  - *Palliative Care/px [Psychology]
KW  - *Terminal Care/px [Psychology]
KW  - *Withholding Treatment
KW  - Academic Medical Centers
KW  - Adult
KW  - Aged
KW  - COVID-19/ep [Epidemiology]
KW  - Fatal Outcome
KW  - Female
KW  - Hospitals, Urban
KW  - Humans
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - United States/ep [Epidemiology]
KW  - MedStar Washington Hospital Center
KW  - Medicine/Palliative Care
KW  - Journal Article
N1  - Available online through MWHC library: 2013 to the present
N2  - Over 140,000 people in the United States have died as a result of infection with COVID-19. These patients have varying death experiences based on their location of death, the availability and utilization of various medical technologies, the amount of strain on the local health care system, the involvement of specialist palliative care (PC) teams, and access to essential medications to alleviate symptoms at the end of life. The objective of this report is to describe the death experiences of four patients cared for in an urban academic medical center who received very different degrees of medical interventions and to examine the interventions of our interdisciplinary PC team. We conclude that PC teams must adapt to this new landscape by creating best practices for ensuring adequate symptom control, modifying approaches for withdrawal of life-sustaining medical technologies, and gaining facility with communication through teleconferencing platforms to meet the challenge of alleviating suffering for people dying from COVID-19
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2020.0251
ER  -