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Provider Perspectives on the Influence of Family on Nursing Home Resident Transfers to the Emergency Department: Crises at the End of Life. [PDF]
, 2015 Background. Nursing home (NH) residents often experience burdensome and unnecessary care transitions, especially towards the end of life. This paper explores provider perspectives on the role that families play in the decision to transfer NH residents to
Bui, Nhat +6 more
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Guidance on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2017 This Policy Statement was reaffirmed June 13, 2023. Pediatric health care is practiced with the goal of promoting the best interests of the child. Treatment generally is rendered under a presumption in favor of sustaining life. However, in some circumstances, the balance of benefits and burdens to the child leads to an assessment that ...
Kathryn L. Weise +21 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Outcomes for pediatric relapsed/refractory (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remain dismal. CPX‐351, a liposomal formulation of cytarabine and daunorubicin, may have less off‐target toxicities than traditional chemotherapies and has shown improved outcomes for adults with newly diagnosed therapy‐related AML.
Jonathan D. Bender +17 more
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The Physician as Conscientious Objector [PDF]
, 2002 This Article examines the right of doctors to object, because of conflicts with the doctor\u27s own morals, to treatment requested or refused by patients.
Bleich, J. David
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Transfusion‐related iron overload (TRIO) is a late effect of therapy impacting survivors of childhood cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) who receive frequent packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusions. Surprisingly, there are no accepted guidelines to assist providers in identifying and treating at‐risk ...
Luke Gingell +3 more
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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 +8 more
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Drawing a Line Between Killing and Letting Die: The Law, and Law Reform, on Medically Assisted Dying [PDF]
, 1993 Traditional medical ethics and law draw a sharp distinction between allowing a patient to die and helping her die. Withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment, such as by abating technological nutrition, hydration or respiration, will cause ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is a common complication in patients receiving maintenance dialysis, driven by calcium and phosphate metabolism disturbances. Calcimimetics are central to the management of SHPT by enhancing calcium‐sensing receptor sensitivity and reducing parathyroid hormone secretion.
Fumihiko Koiwa +3 more
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2023 Background Life-sustaining treatment (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is withheld or withdrawn when there is no reasonable expectation of beneficial outcome.
Michael Beil +9 more
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Care of patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments: an ICU nurse perspective
BMC NursingBackground 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 +3 more
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