End of Life in Intensive Care Unit

Intensive care unit (ICU) is a setting in which the most technologically and advanced treatments are used to manage severe and acute diseases. The aim of such life sustaining treatment is to preserve and restore the critical patient’s lifequality [1]. Therefore, the nature of ICU is to give the best life care to discharge the patients previously admitted. Nevertheless, the ICU hasbecome a common place to die:in the United States 22% of death occur in/or after admission in ICU [2]. In this contest the life sustaining care has become the End of Life care, showing the paradox of the treatments provided here. The medical actions, whose aim is life preservation, became procedures that improve the quality and comfort of death.