The Advantages of a Palliative Care Consultation in the ICU

I think that a lot of ICU providers are very good at sort of providing primary palliative care. That is not necessarily in need of a specialty level of intervention. One thing you're thinking about is uncontrolled symptoms and psychological or psychosocial or spiritual distress most places do have support for those things on their palliative Care team although not everywhere does have social workers and chaplains to come in and help patients and families but that's another thingYou're thinking about when you're going to consult palliatives care.