PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Derick Wade
TI  - Conscientious care for the unconscious patient: new guidance from the Royal College of Physicians
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-3-290
DP  - 2014 Jun 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 290--291
VI  - 14
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/14/3/290.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/14/3/290.full
SO  - Clin Med2014 Jun 01; 14
AB  - Patients who remain unconscious and unaware after a brain insult challenge healthcare. Clinicians are faced with a clinical situation often outside their usual experience. Organisations are faced with practical issues concerning resource use. And people, especially family and friends, are faced with moral, legal and philosophical questions that have no easy answers. This conference launched national guidelines that should assist clinical teams and organisations, and should ensure that all patients and families receive a good quality service.