Serious Illness Conversations and Treatment

Tools for COVID Conversations with Patient/SDMS

1. Knowledge Primer: Outcomes of Intra-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Patients Admitted with COVID-19 Infection: Prepared by Dr. Maria Jogova, MD, FRCPC (May 26, 2020)
2. Guide for Serious Illness Conversations with Hospitalized High Risk COVID-19 Patients Video and Pocket Guide
3. COVID-ready communication skills: a VitalTalk open source primer (developed at U. of W.) 
4. The Original Ariadne Labs Serious Illness Conversation Guide Video and Pocket Guide
5. Dr Atul Gawande speaking about how he approaches conversations with a seriously ill patient (video - 3:01)
6. Pocket Guide for Serious Illness Conversations with patients in LTC at risk of COVID-19
7. Pocket Guide for Serious Illness Conversations with High Risk, Community-Based COVID-19 Patients
8. Serious Illness Conversations with the Substitute Decision Maker in Long Term Care
9. COVID-19 Conversation Toolkit developed by Ariadne Labs
10. Supporting patients and families during COVID-19
11. Aid to Code Status Conversations / Survival Probability Characteristics

12. Treatment/Palliative Management 

13. Symptom management for adult patients with COVID-19 receiving end-of-life supportive care outside of the ICU
14. Clinical course, prognostication, and palliative care considerations for COVID-19 patients who are not ICU candidates (Updated: Dec 23, 2020)