Survivorship and Supportive Care at Stony Brook
Palliative medicine is provided by the Survivorship and Supportive Care Service (SOS). Call for a consult when a patient has life-limiting illness, such as:
Metastatic cancer (including new diagnosis)
Heart failure, New York Heart Association Class IV
Stroke with poor prognosis for functional recovery
Severe COPD
End-stage liver disease
Advanced dementia with dysphasia or who is non-communicative; or
Critically ill patients in the intensive Care Unit
Post-cardiac arrest
Hospital length of stay > 10 days
Stroke on ventilator
Age > 80 years and multiple co-morbidities
On dialysis
Multiple bounce back ICU admissions
We can help the team with:
Facilitating interdisciplinary action plans
Helping to avoid bounce back admissions
Transitioning to a skiled nursing facility, comfort care plans, or home hospice care
We can help the patients with:
Unacceptable symptom distress
Initiation and management of PCA, opioid pain umps for chronic cancer pain
Patient and family meetings to achieve goals of care
Mediating family/patient/team conflict
Please remember:
We help throughout all stages of any advanced life-limiting illness
We can help patients who are receiving disease-modifying treatments, including chemotherapy and/or radiation
Please write the order in the patient's chart and request an SOS or Palliative Care Consult for:
Symptom management
Family meeting to determine goals of care
Assist and support patient and familyw ith complex decisions
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