In patients with advanced underlying pulmonary disease and poor prognosis, palliative care should be provided with the aim of optimally alleviating symptoms by means of medication and non-medication measures.

Discussion about the patient's death and preferred place of dying should generally be part of medical consultation. These issues should also be addressed in an acute situation as soon as the symptoms are reduced to the extent that the patient is able to do so.

The termination of ventilation therapy under palliative care should be a matter of course in ICUs.