Navigating Time-Critical Decisions in Pediatric Critical Care: A Proactive Communication Guide for Cultivating Prognostic Awareness

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Background: Clinical teams face many barriers to communicating with the parents/caregivers of patients experiencing an acute decline. Outside of these time-critical situations, clinicians often can iteratively assess and cultivate prognostic awareness of the patient and parents/caregivers and elicit values and goals over multiple conversations. However, in emergent circumstances, a modified approach to support prognostic awareness is necessary.