EPIC4ICU

The EPIC4ICU website is now live! Visit us here at epic4icu.eu to find out more about the project and to follow along with our updates! hashtag#intensivecare hashtag#palliativecare

The EPIC4ICU consortium is gathering in Prague today for our first General Assembly of 2025! Stay tuned for new updates on the trial and our ambitions for this new year. #palliativecare #intensivemadicine

Happy New Year from all of us here at EPIC! We're thrilled to start the next chapter of EPIC in 2025 following a successful first year of the project. Stay tuned for more of our updates here and on our website: epic4icu.eu

It's been a busy year for EPIC! We're approaching 2025 with excitement and optimism. Interested in catching up on our activities during 2024? See our news and events page on our website: epic4icu.eu/news-and-event…

Our website has a host of information on the project, including where we intend to go! Check out our project roadmap and get a sense of the different substudies involved in EPIC4ICU, including our e-learning and ethical recommendations! epic4icu.eu/roadmap

Dr. Victoria Metaxa is an EPIC partner working in King's College Hospital in London. A critical care consultant, she notes that the tele-medicine approach may facilitate palliative care involvement, even at remote areas without specialist Palliative Care teams.

Our substudies cover a range of topics related to palliative care in the ICU, from legal perceptions to ethical considerations & shared-decision making. Read here what we intend to investigate & what this might mean for clinical practice: epic4icu.eu/news-and-event…

Dr. Sandra Kurkowski discussed the @EPIC4ICU ambition for greater integration between palliative care and intensive care. Are you interested in finding out more about the Patient and Family Advisory Group? Get in touch! #intensivecare #palliativecare #ppi

Professor Hanne Irene Jensen of the University of Southern Denmark spoke to us about her enthusiasm for the developing @EPIC4ICU Project ⬇️

Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients: A a systematic review produced in 2021 outlining the palliative care interventions in intensive care. Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Martin Neukirchen spoke to us about the valuable relationship between the intensive care and palliative care fields. We hope to promote & advance this connection - that all receiving intensive care and can benefit from palliative care will receive it in a timely manner.

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Prof Dr Chris Gastmans spoke to us about his support for the @EPIC4ICU Project. The team at KU Leuven will be crucial to developing ethical recommendations for the use of telepalliative care in ICUs.

Dr Martin Neukirchen discussed the potential for the EPIC4ICU project to deliver new evidence on integrating the palliative care and intensive care fields

eapcnet.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/end… "Nowhere is palliative care more crucial and necessary than in the ICU. The provision of end of life care in the ICU is fraught with many challenges." End of life care in the ICU: The invisible patient

For those in the field of intensive care and medicine, @ESICM Podcast series may be of interest for discussion on up-to-date topics with clinical experts. Here is an episode discussing interprofessional teamwork in the ICU: esicm.org/esicm-talk-int…

At EPIC4ICU we are keen to promote a sense of interprofessional teamwork in the intensive care units across Europe by enhancing access to palliative care practices to individuals in the ICU.

Dr Metaxa has a wealth of experience in both the intensive care and palliative care fields. Read her perspective on decision-making in critical care settings based on her lecture "The 'Art' of Decision-Making in Medicine" from the @ESAIC_org Congress 2024 esaic.org/the-science-be…

The science behind the art of decision-making in critical care Dr. Victoria Metaxa. We are delighted to have Dr. Metaxa as a partner in @EPIC4ICU looking to enhance access to palliative care in intensive care settings. esaic.org/the-science-be…

Dr Sandra Kurkowski und die Funktion der PAG Gruppe 💻 Kommt gerne vorbei und unterstützt uns! Mehr EPIC Informationen finden Sie auf der Projektwebsite: epic4icu.eu

Recommendations on palliative care aspects in intensive care medicine (2023). This consensus paper outlines specific recommendations from ten German societies for implementing palliative care practices into intensive care. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37723595/