Choosing Wisely – Critical Care Societies Collaborative

Healthcare professionals tend, like everyone else, to make some choices based on habit or training.  The web site Choosing Wisely encourages physicians and patients to question some of those routine choices. Choosing Wisely® aims to promote conversations between physicians and patients by helping patients choose care that is: Supported by evidence Not duplicative of other tests or procedures already received Free from harm Truly necessary One of the lists on the site is from the Critical Care Societies Collaborative; five things physicians and patients should question: 1.  Don’t order diagnostic tests at regular intervals (such as every day), but rather in response to specific clinical questions. 2.  Don’t transfuse red blood cells in hemodynamically stable, non-bleeding ICU patients with a hemoglobin concentration greater than 7 g/dL. 3.  Don’t use parenteral nutrition in adequately nourished critically ill patients within the first seven days of an ICU stay. 4.  Don’t deeply sedate mechanically ventilated patients without a specific indication and without daily attempts to lighten sedation. 5.  Don’t continue life support for patients at high risk for death or severely impaired functional recovery without offering patients and their families the alternative of care focused entirely on comfort. Read the explanations for these five recommendations here: http://www.choosingwisely.org/doctor-patient-lists/critical-care-societies-collaborative-critical-ca...
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