Use of Respiratory Distress Observation Scale to Improve Compassionate Extubation at End-of-Life
Use of Respiratory Distress Observation Scale to Improve Compassionate Extubation at End-of-Life is organized by American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN).
Released/Updated: Sep 12, 2021
Expires: May 31, 2026
Activity Summary:
The family decides to withdraw life-sustaining interventions on your patient. This can be one of the most challenging patients for an ICU nurse. Join us as we share how our unit standardized our approach to improving compassionate extubation. We explain our process of creating an algorithm for comfort care, including ventilator weaning/withdrawal and the use of a validated tool to measure patient distress.
Objectives:
• Identify key components to improve patient comfort during compassionate extubation.
• Explain the steps of compassionate extubation using an algorithm and respiratory distress observation scale (RDOS).
• Apply the use of the RDOS to decrease respiratory distress.
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