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Critically ill

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• Critical care medicine
• Sick

• Catastrophic illness

• Critically ill -- Care
• Critically ill -- Family relationships
• Critically ill -- Home care
• Terminally ill

• Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planning and Care Guide (electronic edition, 2002), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Chequer Board (c1947), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planning and Care Guide (electronic edition, 2002), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)
• The Heart of Hospice, by Dorothy C. H. Ley and Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2015), by Susan Eva Lowey (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)

• Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know (2003), ed. by June Rigby Lunney, Kathleen M. Foley, Thomas J. Smith, and Hellen Gelband (page images at NAP)
• Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life, ed. by Marilyn J. Field and Christine K. Cassel (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Institutional Protocols for Decisions About Life-Sustaining Treatments: Special Report (Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Dying for Care: Hospice Care or Euthanasia (electronic edition, 1995), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Birds' Christmas Carol, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Illness and the Limits of Expression (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Kathlyn Conway (page images at HathiTrust)

• BLS: Basic Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• Intensive Care Units (ICUs): Clinical Outcomes, Costs, and Decisionmaking (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1984), by Robert A. Berenson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• "We Can't Kill Your Mother!" and Other Stories of Intensive Care, by Lawrence Martin (HTML at Lakeside Press)

• Critical Care Nursing of Infants and Children (second edition, 2001), by Martha A. Q. Curley and Pat Moloney-Harmon (PDF files here at Penn)

• The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner: A Transformational Journey (Edmonton: AU Press, c2013), by Judy Rashotte (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Life-Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly (OTA-BA-306; Washington: GPO, 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Suggestions for the Proving of Drugs on the Healthy: Report of the Committee Appointed for That Purpose (1853), by American Provers' Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment (1995), ed. by Richard A. Rettig and Adam Yarmolinsky (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Critical Care Nursing of Infants and Children (second edition, 2001), by Martha A. Q. Curley and Pat Moloney-Harmon (PDF files here at Penn)

• Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness (OTA-HCS-38; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • PDF at ed.gov

• Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness (OTA-HCS-38; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • PDF at ed.gov

• The Incubator Baby (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by May Wilson Preston (multiple formats at archive.org)

• PALS: Pediatric Advanced Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• An Essay on Suspended Animation (Philadelphia: E. Parker, 1823), by Samuel Colhoun
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Prospect of Immortality, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)

• CPR, AED and First Aid: Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• BLS: Basic Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• CPR, AED and First Aid: Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• BLS: Basic Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• Man Into Superman, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)

• Cryonics (partial serial archives)

• The Use of the Physical and Social Environment of the General Hospital for Therapeutic Purposes (Newer Dimensions of Patient Care p1; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1961), by Esther Lucile Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the Sick-Room: Essays (second American edition; Boston: W. Crosby, 1845), by Harriet Martineau, contrib. by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (page images at Google)
• Life in the Sick-Room: Essays by an Invalid (second edition; London: E. Moxon, 1844), by Harriet Martineau (page images at Google)

• The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude (multiple formats at CCEL)

• A Guernsey Lily, or, How the Feud Was Healed: A Story for Girls and Boys (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881), by Susan Coolidge, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bishop's Shadow, by Ida Treadwell Thurston, illust. by M. Eckerson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Cherry Tree (London et al.: Pickering and Inglis, ca. 1901), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dickory Dock, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The End of a Coil (London: J. Nisbet and Co., ca. 1880), by Susan Warner (Gutenberg text)
• "Sister": A Chronicle of Fair Haven (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Evelyn Everett-Green (page images at Florida)
• Twenty Minutes Late (c1893), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sick-Room Thoughts and Gleanings (Saint John, N.B.: Daily Telegraph Book and Job Press, 1892), by Maggie P. Anderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together With Death's Duel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959), by John Donne, contrib. by Izaak Walton (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, by John Donne (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

• Illness and the Limits of Expression (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Kathlyn Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the Ward (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c1962), by Rose Laub Coser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution of Sickness and Healing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Horacio Fabrega (HTML at UC Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.