Managing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The Transition from Cure to Comfort

doi:10.1056/NEJM200202143460723

Volume 346:542		February 14, 2002		Number 7

Managing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The Transition from Cure to Comfort

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Edited by J. Randall Curtis and Gordon D. Rubenfeld. 388 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. $59.95. ISBN 0-19-512881-8.

For those who care for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU),dealing with the complex medical and psychosocial issues surroundingdeath and the dying patient is a daily event. However, the necessarypractical skills are rarely learned as part of formal training,and many of us approach these issues awkwardly and with somediscomfort. The editors of Managing Death in the Intensive CareUnit have set a formidable goal: to create a book that reviewsthe topic of death and dying in the ICU in a scholarly way andprovides specific, practical advice for caring for criticallyill and . . . [Full Text of this Article]