Book contents
- Shared Decision Making in Adult Critical Care
- Shared Decision Making in Adult Critical Care
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 When Does Shared Decision-Making Apply in Adult Critical Care?
- Chapter 2 How Much Does the Family Want to Be Involved in Decision-Making?
- Chapter 3 Show Me the Data
- Chapter 4 Communication Skills for Critical Care Family Meetings
- Chapter 5 The Do-Not-Resuscitate Order
- Chapter 6 The Do-Not-Intubate Order
- Chapter 7 Prolonged Ventilator Dependence for the Pulmonary Patient
- Chapter 8 Renal Replacement Therapy
- Chapter 9 Shared Decision-Making during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Chapter 10 Hypoxic–Ischemic Brain Injury after Cardiac Arrest
- Chapter 11 Decompressive Craniectomy for Stroke Patients
- Chapter 12 Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients
- Chapter 13 Severe Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
- Chapter 14 Potentially Inappropriate Treatment and Conscientious Objection
- Chapter 15 Shared Decision-Making in Emergent Situations
- Chapter 16 Advance Directives
- Chapter 17 Care of the Unbefriended Patient
- Chapter 18 The Role of Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 19 Measuring and Evaluating Shared Decision-Making in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 20 Brain Death Discussions
- Index
- References
Chapter 4 - Communication Skills for Critical Care Family Meetings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
Book contents
- Shared Decision Making in Adult Critical Care
- Shared Decision Making in Adult Critical Care
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 When Does Shared Decision-Making Apply in Adult Critical Care?
- Chapter 2 How Much Does the Family Want to Be Involved in Decision-Making?
- Chapter 3 Show Me the Data
- Chapter 4 Communication Skills for Critical Care Family Meetings
- Chapter 5 The Do-Not-Resuscitate Order
- Chapter 6 The Do-Not-Intubate Order
- Chapter 7 Prolonged Ventilator Dependence for the Pulmonary Patient
- Chapter 8 Renal Replacement Therapy
- Chapter 9 Shared Decision-Making during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Chapter 10 Hypoxic–Ischemic Brain Injury after Cardiac Arrest
- Chapter 11 Decompressive Craniectomy for Stroke Patients
- Chapter 12 Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients
- Chapter 13 Severe Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
- Chapter 14 Potentially Inappropriate Treatment and Conscientious Objection
- Chapter 15 Shared Decision-Making in Emergent Situations
- Chapter 16 Advance Directives
- Chapter 17 Care of the Unbefriended Patient
- Chapter 18 The Role of Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 19 Measuring and Evaluating Shared Decision-Making in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 20 Brain Death Discussions
- Index
- References
Summary
Excellent communication is a foundation of shared decision making. As discussed throughout this book, shared decision-making is a collaborative process of (1) exchanging medical and personal information about patients’ values, goals and preferences, (2) deliberation about how to apply these values to the clinical situation and (3) development of a treatment plan that reflects these values. This process is a very complex communication task. Unskilled clinicians may leave decisions largely to the discretion of surrogates without providing adequate support, and surrogates may struggle to make patient-centered decisions rather than decisions based on their own values, resulting in higher levels of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.1 Conversely, in a recent study of recorded family meetings regarding ICU decision-making, fewer than one-half included deliberation about how to apply a patient’s values and preferences to the clinical situation.2
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