The last few days of life

The Liverpool Integrated Care Pathway for the Dying Patient lists four criteria. The patient is: bedbound, semi-comatose, no longer able to take tablets and able to take only sips of fluid. In addition to two of these criteria applying, the clinical team need to agree that there is no realistic reversible cause for the patient’s deteriorating health. Importantly, such reversible causes might include: metabolic complications, for example …