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SCCM FCC 2024 — Guidelines on Family-Centered Care for Adult ICUs: 2024

Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2024

Use structured, timely, culturally responsive communication; identify the patient's values and preferred surrogate; support shared decision-making, family presence and participation when appropriate; and provide interdisciplinary psychosocial, spiritual and bereavement support according to patient/family needs.

Conditional recommendationModerate certainty

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Clinical Context & Relevant Topics (1)

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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