Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine

Many emergency clinicians encounter a gap in knowledge and skills when presented with serious life-threatening illness, particularly in patients with advanced and terminal illness. Over the last decade, studies have shown that patients who receive palliative care in the emergency setting have improved clinical outcomes with better symptom management, improved goal concordant care, and more effective resource utilization that delivers improved patient centered outcomes. Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine is intended to serve as a practical resource to the essential clinicians on the frontlines of emergency care.

Dr. Quest brings together emergency medicine clinicians and palliative care subspecialists to discuss common, challenging cases that clinicians struggle with daily regarding care for patients and families experiencing serious, life threatening, and terminal illnesses. Each chapter opens with a typical emergency department clinical case, followed by a discussion, conclusion, and suggested readings that explore the topic in more depth. Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine equips emergency clinicians to meet seriously ill patients and family wherever they are and provide the best care possible.

許多急診醫師在面對嚴重危及生命的疾病時，尤其是對於晚期和末期病患，常常遇到知識和技能的差距。在過去十年中，研究顯示，在急診環境中接受姑息照護的病患具有改善的臨床結果，包括更好的症狀管理、改善的目標一致性照護，以及更有效的資源利用，從而提供改善的以病患為中心的結果。《急診醫學中的姑息照護》旨在成為急診護理的基礎臨床醫師的實用資源。

Quest醫生匯集了急診醫學臨床醫師和姑息照護專科醫師，討論了醫師們每天在照護嚴重、危及生命和末期疾病的病患和家屬時所面臨的常見挑戰性案例。每一章節都以一個典型的急診科臨床案例開始，接著進行討論、結論和建議閱讀，以更深入地探討該主題。《急診醫學中的姑息照護》使急診醫師能夠在任何地方遇到嚴重病患和家屬，並提供最佳的照護。

Dr. Tammie E. Quest is the Montgomery Chair in Palliative Medicine and Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is the former President of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the founding and current Director of the Emory Palliative Care Center. Dr. Quest also leads Northwestern University's Education in Palliative and End of Life Care Education-Emergency Medicine (EPEC-EM) Project.

Dr. Tammie E. Quest是蒙哥馬利緩和醫學講座教授，並在家庭與預防醫學系和急診醫學系擔任教授。她曾擔任美國安寧醫學學會（AAHPM）的前任主席，並是埃默里緩和醫療中心的創始人和現任主任。Quest博士還領導著西北大學的緩和與末期護理教育-急診醫學（EPEC-EM）項目。