Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Neurosurgery and Neurosurgical Care

What palliative care clinicians need to know about supporting patients and families facing serious neurosurgical illness.

An article published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine offers ten tips for palliative care clinicians caring for patients with serious neurosurgical illness, such as glioblastoma, traumatic brain injury, or spinal cord injury. Developed by an interdisciplinary group of neurosurgery, neurology, and palliative care specialists, the tips address navigating prognostic uncertainty, supporting high-stakes surgical decisions, managing refractory pain, and assessing caregiver burden across a spectrum of neurosurgical conditions.
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