To Intubate or Not to Intubate: Emergency Medicine Physicians' Perspective on Intubating Critically Ill, Terminal Cancer Patients

EPs vary in their attitudes about intubating dying cancer patients when families demanded it, even when they believed it was nonbeneficial and against the patient's wishes. Palliative care education has the potential to influence that decision making. Intubation could be mitigated by the availability of palliative consultation in the ED.