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Care of patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments: an ICU nurse perspective

BMC Nursing
Background Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses working in South Korea report experiencing uncertainty about how to care for patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments (WLT).
Sung Ok Chang, Dayeong Kim, Yoon Sung Cho, Younjae Oh   +3 more
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Shared Decision-making in Emergency Life-sustaining Treatment

Yixue yu zhexue
Shared decision-making (SDM) model has been widely recognized in the world, but its practice in China is still in the exploratory stage. SDM has a broad implementation prospect in emergency department, where patients with serious illness and their family
Jun WU, Shu LI
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Predictors and outcomes of withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units in Singapore: a multicentre observational study

Journal of Intensive Care
Background Clinical practice guidelines on limitation of life-sustaining treatments (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU), in the form of withholding or withdrawal of LST, state that there is no ethical difference between the two.
Clare Fong, Wern Lunn Kueh, Sennen Jin Wen Lew, Benjamin Choon Heng Ho, Yu-Lin Wong, Yie Hui Lau, Yew Woon Chia, Hui Ling Tan, Ying Hao Christopher Seet, Wen Ting Siow, Graeme MacLaren, Rohit Agrawal, Tian Jin Lim, Shir Lynn Lim, Toon Wei Lim, Vui Kian Ho, Chai Rick Soh, Duu Wen Sewa, Chian Min Loo, Faheem Ahmed Khan, Chee Keat Tan, Roshni Sadashiv Gokhale, Chuin Siau, Noelle Louise Siew Hua Lim, Chik-Foo Yim, Jonathen Venkatachalam, Kumaresh Venkatesan, Naville Chi Hock Chia, Mei Fong Liew, Guihong Li, Li Li, Su Mon Myat, Zena Zena, Shuling Zhuo, Ling Ling Yueh, Caroline Shu Fang Tan, Jing Ma, Siew Lian Yeo, Yiong Huak Chan, Jason Phua, for SICM-NICER group   +40 more
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End-of-life discussions reduce the utilization of life-sustaining treatments during the last three months of life in cancer patients

Scientific Reports, 2022
Studies to examine the impact of end-of-life (EOL) discussions on the utilization of life-sustaining treatments near death are limited and have inconsistent findings.
Shang-Yih Chan, Yun-Ju Lai, Yu-Yen Chen, Shuo-Ju Chiang, Yi-Fan Tsai, Li-Fei Hsu, Pei-Hung Chuang, Chu-Chieh Chen, Yung-Feng Yen   +8 more
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A study of the documentation of withholding and withdrawing life‐sustaining therapies in a tertiary intensive care unit in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
Background In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), recommended end‐of‐life (EOL) care practice encompasses do‐not‐attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR), withholding (WH), and withdrawing (WD) life‐sustaining treatment (LST).
Duncan Ka‐Hin Lam, Wai‐Tat Wong, Gavin Matthew Joynt   +2 more
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Withdrawal of life-support in paediatric intensive care - a study of time intervals between discussion, decision and death

BMC Pediatrics, 2011
Background Scant information exists about the time-course of events during withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. We investigated the time required for end-of-life decisions, subsequent withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and the time to death ...
Tibballs James, Oberender Felix
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Factors associated with life-sustaining treatment restriction in a general intensive care unit. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Few previous studies have investigated associations between clinical variables available after 24 hours in the intensive care unit (ICU), including the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), and decisions to restrict life-sustaining treatment. The aim of this
Stein Arve Skjaker, Henrik Hoel, Vegard Dahl, Knut Stavem   +3 more
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Eleven-year retrospective study characterizing patients with severe brain damage and poor neurological prognosis -role of physicians’ attitude toward life-sustaining treatment

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Severe brain hemorrhage/infarction and cardiac arrest constitute the most critical situations leading to poor neurological prognosis. Characterization of these patients is required to offer successful end-of-life care, but actual practice is ...
Haruaki Wakatake, Koichi Hayashi, Yuka Kitano, Hsiang-Chin Hsu, Toru Yoshida, Yoshihiro Masui, Yasuhiko Taira, Shigeki Fujitani   +7 more
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Characteristics and outcomes of patients with do-not-resuscitate and physician orders for life-sustaining treatment in a medical intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Palliative Care
Background In the intensive care unit (ICU), we may encounter patients who have completed a Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) or a Physician Orders to Stop Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) document.
Song-I Lee, Ye-Rin Ju, Da Hyun Kang, Jeong Eun Lee   +3 more
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Adding Life to Years: Comprehensive end-of-life care for all

Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management
This study builds upon our 2019 End-of-Life Care (EoLC) research, focusing on enhancing the quality and accessibility of EoLC in Hong Kong. With the introduction of the Advance Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment Bill, we identified the need for a ...
Ryan IP, Dicky Chow, Dorothy Yeung, Jessie Zhang, Betty Shu   +4 more
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