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Clinical Challenges in Surgical Palliative Care: Non-Beneficial Surgery (and How to Avoid it) and Care of the Imminently Dying Patient
Welcome to the fifth of a six-part series focused on the integration of palliative care into the practice of surgery. In this episode, we discuss nonbeneficial surgery (and how best to avoid it) as well as care of the imminently dying patient.Nonbeneficial surgery is best defined as surgery that fails to meet the goals of the patient. As our surgical patients become older and more medically complex, we must be aware of the factors which lead to nonbeneficial surgery – including patient, surrogate, system, and surgeon factors – and how best to approach each of these to avoid causing harm to…
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