TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Patients with Limited English Proficiency A1 - Bolaji, Toba A1 - Ratnasekera, Asanthi A1 - Ferrada, Paula A2 - Lane-Fall, Meghan B A2 - Shapiro, David S. A2 - Kaplan, Lewis J. PY - 2024 T2 - After the ICU: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Supporting Critical Illness Survivors AB - Patient Care VignetteMrs. Obayemi is a 78-year-old female who you’ve been caring for in your intensive care unit. Her hospital course has been complicated and her health is slowly deteriorating. Mrs. Obayemi came to the United States from Nigeria last year, initially to visit her adult children, but after realizing that many of her chronic medical issues had not been controlled, she now permanently lives with her children.She initially presented after a fall, sustaining a severe traumatic brain injury, but her course has been complicated by the incidental discovery of ovarian cancer and subsequently underwent a placement of a tracheostomy and a feeding tube. Mrs. Obayemi is non-English speaking and was born and lived all her life in a small village in northern Nigeria. She speaks an uncommon dialect of Yoruba and because of that, all of your communication with her has been accomplished with her children as intermediaries. Using her children as de facto interpreters has led to misunderstanding and miscommunication about her prognosis and ultimately the goals of her care. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/09/11 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1204537906 ER -