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Evaluating Life-sustaining Treatments for Demented Persons
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1988Decisions to employ, withhold, or withdraw life-sustaining treatments from demented individuals should be centered on the patients' personal needs rather than on physiological abnormalities. To accomplish this, physicians and families need a trusting communication and flexible, comprehensive, and positive approaches to treatment goals and technologies.
S H, Miles, R J, Moss
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Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
Critical Care Nurse, 2012Withdrawal of life support is an option for patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation when all attempts at weaning have failed and it is deemed futile to continue the therapy, when quality of life is unacceptable, or when it is perceived that the patient is suffering.
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Medical Futility and Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions
Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 1996By focusing our attention on the questions of "what are we trying to achieve" and "are we able to do it", the discussion of medical futility has contributed an important dimension to the ethics of treatment decision making near the end of life. It is not simply enough to ask and answer the question of what the patient wants.
L J, Weber, M L, Campbell
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Withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatment
2013The ethics of decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining therapies are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the ethical and moral distinctions - or lack thereof - between withholding and withdrawing. The ethical principles informing decisions to forgo life-sustaining therapy are covered, along with the difficulty of making such decisions in ...
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Decisions About Life-Sustaining Treatment
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1995Background: Despite the growing availability of advance directives, most patients in the intensive care unit lack written directives, and, therefore, consultation with families about treatment decisions remains the rule. In the context of decision making about withdrawing life-sustaining treatments, we investigated which physician and nurse behaviors ...
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Life-sustaining treatments during terminal illness
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1993To determine patient characteristics associated with the desire for life-sustaining treatments in the event of terminal illness.In-person survey from October 1986 to June 1988.13 internal medicine and family practices in North Carolina.2,536 patients (46% of those eligible) aged 65 years and older who were continuing care patients of participating ...
J M, Garrett +4 more
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Economic aspects in prolonged life sustainable treatments
NeuroRehabilitation, 2005In a context of limited resources and continuous increase of healthcare expenditures, policy makers need to carefully evaluate the economic impact of their decisions. In the last decade economists have been particularly productive in offering to the decision makers a set of tools able to compare costs and benefits of each single medical procedure.
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Terminating Life-Sustaining Treatment of the Demented
The Hastings Center Report, 1995Some subjects in ethics elicit a far greater degree of emotional discomfort than others. It is not the delicacy or complexity of the subject as such that seems to be the problem. It is, instead a tacit recognition that, try as we might, it is especially hard to disentangle our personal response from the issues themselves.
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Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions
Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2001Perla Werner, Sara Carmel
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