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Episode 252: Palliative Care in the ICU with Dr. Tim Poore

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

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How to Tell a Family Member That Their Loved One Is Dying

Sometimes your headline is going to include really hard things to say like the word dying for example can you give a couple examples of headlines maybe especially in ones that might include that word dying yeah. If you don't practice this beforehand it's going to be so hard that you might not do it at all absolutely. It's really hard to tell people devastating news right and you know I think people in palliative care myself included are reluctant to say it even when it isn't real. You didn't cause the thing to happen but it is happening and you're there to sort of bear witness and sit in that suffering with those those people, he says.

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