Abstract
Copyright: © 2013 Jubanyik K. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. When one thinks of the Emergency Department (ED), one usually thinks of teams of providers hustling to save lives. And while that is often what is done in the ED, sometimes the situation calls for a different approach. ED providers may provide a new set of objective eyes and ears for a chronically ill patient with or without a change in their condition or the team may be presented with a patient suffering an acute catastrophic condition for which curative therapy is not possible or indicated. This article will review the reasons why ED’s are a necessary and important place for end-of-life (EOL) discussions and management and highlight real-life cases in which the ED team played an integral role in identifying appropriate patients for EOL care and providing these services.
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