LO5 Life-threatening and life-limiting conditions from fetus to adolescence
A short summary in PICUlearn's own words. The original wording is in the publisher's document.
- LO5-KC1 Managing life-limiting conditions and families in PICU
- LO5-KC2 Holistic care and paediatric palliative care models
- LO5-KC3 Multidimensional model of patient experience in serious illness
- LO5-KC4 Human, legal and ethical aspects of deterioration and death
- LO5-KC5 Science and course of life-limiting childhood diseases
- LO5-KC6 Pain and symptom management in life-limiting disease
- LO5-1 Support mechanisms for difficult end-of-life decisions
- LO5-2 Holistic advance planning in life-limiting illness
- LO5-3 Cultural and religious influences around dying
- LO5-4 Withdrawal of intensive care support
- LO5-5 Brainstem function testing and legal framework
- LO5-6 Organ donation after brain and circulatory death
- LO5-7 Family support through death and bereavement
- LO5-8 Pre- and post-mortem diagnostic sampling
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Videos
- Pediatric Medical Complexity: Shared Insights by B. Markovitz & A. Schrooten | OPENPediatricsOPENPediatricsVideo
- Paediatric Palliative Care in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Beyond-Info EAPCVideo
- Pediatric End-of-Life Guidelines & Insights by D. DeCourcey and S. Derrington | OPENPediatricsOPENPediatricsVideo
- Communication Strategies & Palliative Care in the PICU--Part 2Zac HodgesVideo
- Communication Strategies & Palliative Care in the PICU--Part 1Zac HodgesVideo
- Ethics and the Law: Applications in the NICU by A. DeTora | OPENPediatricsOPENPediatricsVideo
Guidelines and evidence
- Implementation of Polish guidelines on futile therapy protocols in pediatric intensive care units: a multicenter retrospective review.Scientific Reports, 2026Guideline or evidence
- Parental experiences of their infant's hospital admission undergoing cardiac surgery: A systematic review.Acta Paediatrica, 2021Guideline or evidence
- A Modified Delphi Consensus-Based Comprehensive Checklist and Angoff Standard for Assessment of Competency in Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria Determination.Critical Care Medicine (Delphi expert consensus panel), 2026Guideline or evidence
- Society of Critical Care Medicine 2026 Guidelines on the Care and Management of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Patients at the End of Life.Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM/ACCM), 2026Guideline or evidence
- Executive Summary of Society of Critical Care Medicine 2026 Guidelines on the Care and Management of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Patients at the End of Life.Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), 2026Guideline or evidence
- Futile therapy protocols: A 3-year review of the implementation of Polish guidelines on ineffective organ function maintenance in pediatric intensive care unit-A pilot study.BMC Palliative Care, 2025Guideline or evidence
- Canadian Guidelines for Controlled Pediatric Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death-Summary Report.Canadian Critical Care Society / Canadian Blood Services (Canadian national DCD guideline panel), 2017Guideline or evidence