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SCCM EOL 2025 — Clinical Practice Guidelines on Adult End-of-Life Care in the ICU

Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2025

Provide patient-centered symptom control, clear and repeated communication about prognosis and treatment options, shared decision-making based on the patient's values and goals, and a planned interdisciplinary approach when life-sustaining treatments are withheld or withdrawn.

Conditional recommendationModerate certainty

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Disease Reference

Goals of Care, Treatment Limitation & Palliative Critical Care

Structured ICU communication, surrogate decision-making, treatment-limitation decisions, symptom control, and compassionate withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.

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