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Foregoing Life-Sustaining Treatment
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1986Excerpt To the editor: The patient described as "hopelessly injured" by Braithwaite and Thomasma in their proposed anti-cruelty policy (1) does not, I believe, meet even their own stated criteria f...
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Life-sustaining treatment for patients with AIDS
Health Policy, 1989Physicians increasingly are being called upon to make difficult decisions about intensive care for patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). AIDS patients who require intensive care have a poor prognosis; the in-hospital mortality rate of those receiving mechanical ventilation for P carinii pneumonia is 86-100 percent in most studies.
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Lawfully withdrawing life-sustaining treatment
British Journal of Community Nursing, 2013The UK Supreme Court recently delivered its first judgement based on the application of the 2005 Mental Capacity Act. The plurality judgement given by Lady Hale clarified the law on medical futility and the circumstances under which a district nurse is lawfully able to withdraw life-sustaining treatment.
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Discussing Life-Sustaining Treatment
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1991Ideally, physicians and patients should discuss patient preferences for life-sustaining treatment before the onset of cognitive impairment or a life-threatening illness; however, these conversations often do not occur. We developed an educational program in which residents practiced discussing advance directives with volunteer simulated outpatients and
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Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1992Life is a journey, and the end of the journey has, for many people, become more difficult. Clinical conditions that just 25 years ago would have signified imminent death now prompt "life-sustaining treatment." On occasion, such treatment permits dramatic recovery.
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Withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatment
British Journal of Nursing, 2012There has been considerable criticism recently over the use of end-of-life pathways and do-not-resuscitate orders with vulnerable, incapable patients, often without discussion. This criticism has led to press and judicial scrutiny of the lawfulness of decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment.
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Life-Sustaining Treatment under Dispute
The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 2020The Texas Advance Directives Act stipulates the process by which physicians may withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment contrary to the wishes of the patient or medical proxy. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of families and clinicians have faced this personal and distressing dispute. Catholic teaching offers a rich tradition for assessing the ethics
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Right to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment
Pediatrics, 1988Recent judicial actions expanding individual rights to refuse life-prolonging medical intervention serve to call attention to the absence of similar development regarding severely damaged, critically ill newborns. Whereas courts have provided guidelines that will allow adults to choose death when hope for meaningful life is lost, hopelessly ill infants
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Decisions regarding forgoing life-sustaining treatments
Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2017Decisions to forego life-sustaining treatments are complex, and disagreements between physicians and patients occur. This review discusses recent findings regarding what factors influence physicians and patients or their surrogates in these decisions and considers whether futility arguments regarding life-sustaining treatments should be abandoned ...
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Stability of Choices about Life-Sustaining Treatments
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1994To examine the stability of patients' choices for life-sustaining treatments.A longitudinal cohort study.Primary care practices in central North Carolina.Medicare recipients (n = 2536).Participants were asked about demographic characteristics, health status, well-being, depression, social support, use of a living will, and desire for life-sustaining ...
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