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Prognosis of patients with advanced dementia in the ICU:Recognizing it and incorporating it into the goals of care conversation Takeshi UEMURA 1 1Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine University of Maryland School of Medicine pp.59-66
Published Date 2022/1/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.3102200939
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Dementia is a common disease, and yet it is not widely known as fatal, especially in Japan. In fact, although dementia is ranked as the 6th leading cause of death in the US, dementia is not on the top ten list in Japan as a cause of death, which may reflect serious under-recognition of the mortality associated with a diagnosis of dementia. Instead, in Japan, failure to thrive and pneumonia are the 4th and 5th leading cause of death respectively, a substantial proportion of which could in fact be related to dementia. The slow progression of the disease likely makes it difficult to link dementia to a patient's death. This article reviews the natural trajectory of dementia and provides guidance on how to recognize advanced dementia, which is a terminal condition, in the ICU setting. This also provides guidance on how to conduct goals of care conversations to generate goal-concordant care plans by incorporating recognition of the mortality associated with dementia and the patient's perceived values voiced by the surrogate. Lastly, this shows what it would look like to provide comfort care to patients with advanced dementia in the last days of their lives.


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