Key result
Novel multidisciplinary palliative care pathway ensures goal-directed perioperative care for children with complex diseases.
Why the study?
Advances in complex pediatric surgical care have led to the possible misalignment of potential surgical outcomes and goals of care.
Does a novel process involving pediatric palliative care consultants and multidisciplinary care planning ensure patient-centered and goal-directed perioperative care in children with complex baseline disease?
Does a novel process involving pediatric palliative care consultants and multidisciplinary care planning ensure patient-centered and goal-directed perioperative care in children with complex baseline disease?
A novel multidisciplinary pathway involving pediatric palliative care can help align surgical outcomes with goals of care for children with complex diseases.
May support goal-directed perioperative care in complex pediatric cases; leaves open prospective validation of outcomes.
BACKGROUND: Advances in pediatric perioperative care have supported the safe provision of increasingly complex surgical care to patients with complicated diseases and abnormal physiology. This has led to the possible misalignment of the impact of potential surgical outcomes and goals of care. Methods / Objectives: We describe the development of a novel process that leverages the combination of longitudinal engagement of pediatric palliative care consultants and multidisciplinary care planning to ensure that perioperative care remains patient-centered and goal-directed for all children, especially children with complex baseline disease. CONCLUSIONS: Our novel process should be considered a solution to a crictial gap in pediatric perioperative care.
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Lin et al. (2025) studied Pediatric perioperative care. Novel multidisciplinary care planning pathway was evaluated. A novel pathway combining pediatric palliative care and multidisciplinary planning was developed to ensure patient-centered, goal-directed perioperative care for children with complex diseases.
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