"Care of Patients Who Die in Emergency Departments"

April 9, 2010, article by Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP :

"In a European study, many patients who were not resuscitated also did not receive end-of-life comfort measures."

Reviewing: Le Conte P et al. Intensive Care Med 2010 May 36:765
Kompanje EJO. Intensive Care Med 2010 May 36:732.

Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP, Associate Editor
Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP, is Director of Public Health Preparedness and Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California at Irvine. She is an internationally recognized expert on homeland security, disaster medicine, emergency medical services, and health policy and systems management. Dr. Koenig has written numerous peer-reviewed articles and lectured in more than a dozen countries. Her federal government experience includes a prior appointment by the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs as National Director of the Emergency Office and Principal Advisor to the Under Secretary for Health. She has been writing for Journal Watch Emergency Medicine since the publication's launch in 1997.

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Journal Watch Emergency Medicine