Comfort measures failure

[mamo23]

Hi everyone - The hospital started comfort measures on my brother who has severe brain injury 10 days ago, and they were expecting him to live for 2 days at the most, but he is still alive and it feels even worse that they give him morphine every 2 hours. So it feels like we are taking his life with our own hands. Wanted to ask if the same situation every happened to any of loved ones? What is the right thing to do? Thanks

[Sepsur]

I’m so sorry that this has been the seeming outcome for your brother. What a horrible ordeal for all of you

The Society of Critical Care Medicine has a leaflet on guidelines for palliative care

connect.sccm.org/communitie...

[mamo23 in reply to Sepsur]

Thank you 🙌🙌

[Rhyl1 Partner Moderator ICUsteps]

I’m so sorry that your brother is now on comfort measures. ICUsteps has a leaflet on end of life in ICU and palliative care. You can download a pdf at icusteps.org/information/in.... Look after yourself, try to rest when you can and try to eat well

[mamo23 in reply to Rhyl1]

Thank you 🙌🙌

[Ashfilm]

I'm sorry to hear the news about your brother. I went through a situation with a relative 9 months ago. In my case my relative had MS which is a progressive illness. In the end she went downhill so quicky while in ICU that the doctors made the decision for us. I think if the doctors are adamant that their is no hope of survival then for us the best thing to do for my mum was to make her comfortable in her final days . Again it is a very hard thing to go through as a family so take care of each other. I wish you and your loved one all the best.

[mamo23]

yes, it is very difficult thank you so much