Provision of End-of-Life Care in Austere Environments.

IF 1.4 4区 医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI:10.1177/10806032241308833
Jason W David, Hui Z Feng, Danny Lammers, Russell Day
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End-of-life care presents unique challenges in austere or resource-limited environments where traditional medical resources are scarce or absent. This review explores the complexities of providing end-of-life care under such constraints, including recognition of the dying patient and techniques to alleviate suffering and allow death with dignity in under-resourced or expeditionary environments. Moreover, it presents these techniques in an accessible manner for providers without formal hospice training to use. Based on a literature review of hospice and palliative medicine, insights from the body of literature in wilderness and austere medicine, and the authors' experiences in practicing in austere environments, this paper discusses practical approaches to symptom management, ethical considerations in end-of-life decision making, and accessible interventions with limited resources. By addressing these challenges and offering management recommendations, this review aims to enrich the literature and provide guidance for general medical providers who may lack formal palliative and hospice care training and yet find themselves in the situation of navigating end-of-life care in challenging and austere environments.

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Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生
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96
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期刊介绍: Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, the official journal of the Wilderness Medical Society, is the leading journal for physicians practicing medicine in austere environments. This quarterly journal features articles on all aspects of wilderness medicine, including high altitude and climbing, cold- and heat-related phenomena, natural environmental disasters, immersion and near-drowning, diving, and barotrauma, hazardous plants/animals/insects/marine animals, animal attacks, search and rescue, ethical and legal issues, aeromedial transport, survival physiology, medicine in remote environments, travel medicine, operational medicine, and wilderness trauma management. It presents original research and clinical reports from scientists and practitioners around the globe. WEM invites submissions from authors who want to take advantage of our established publication''s unique scope, wide readership, and international recognition in the field of wilderness medicine. Its readership is a diverse group of medical and outdoor professionals who choose WEM as their primary wilderness medical resource.
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