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Process of life-sustaining treatment in general hospital: withholding and withdrawing
Revista de Bioética y Derecho, 2011 Introducción: La limitación del esfuerzo terapéutico (LET) es una práctica frecuente en los Servicios de Medicina Intensiva (SMI) que asocia a una mortalidad elevada.
Lorenzo Socias Crespí +1 more
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Ethical dimensions of paediatric nursing: A rapid evidence assessment [PDF]
, 2016 © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Background: Paediatric nurses often face complex situations requiring decisions that sometimes clash with their own values and beliefs, or with the needs of the children they care for and their families.
Bagnasco, Annamaria +8 more
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Withdrawal of life sustaining treatment
BMJ, 2002 Ms B, as she was called in court and in the media, was a 43 year old professional woman who in 1999 had a haemorrhage in a cavernous haemangioma in her upper spinal cord. After an almost complete recovery she had a re-bleed in February 2001, which rendered her quadriplegic and dependent on artificial ventilation. Specialists who reviewed her all agreed
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Autonomy versus futility? Barriers to good clinical practice in end-of-life care: a Queensland case [PDF]
, 2012 Findings from a Queensland coronial inquest highlight the complex clinical, ethical and legal issues that arise in end-of-life care when clinicians and family members disagree about a diagnosis of clinical futility.
Lawrence, Sean +5 more
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On Charlie Gard: Ethics, Culture, and Religion [PDF]
, 2018 The 2017 story of Charlie Gard is revisited. Upon the British High Court’s ruling in favor of the physicians that the infant should be allowed to die without the experimental treatment, the view of the public as well as the opinions of bioethicists and ...
Lee, Marvin J. H.
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IPOST Essentials, April 28, 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 IPOST stands for: Iowa Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment. The IPOST is a standardized, clearly identifiable one page, salmon colored form. The IPOST allows an individual to communicate their treatment preferences for life-sustaining treatments ...
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Omissions, causation, and responsibility - A reply to McLachlan and Coggon [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper I discuss a recent exchange of articles between Hugh McLachlan and John Coggon on the relationship between omissions, causation and moral responsibility.
McGee, Andrew
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Quality of End-of-Life Cancer Care for Medicare Beneficiaries [PDF]
, 2010 The report shows that many challenges remain to improving the care of patients with serious, life-limiting illness. For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in
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Jurnal NersIntroduction: Withdrawing life-sustaining measures involves complex legal and ethical considerations, and few healthcare providers have received specialized training in this area.
Ibrahim Ahmd Alabd +2 more
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End of Life Care Practices for Patients Who Die in Intensive Care Units (ICU) [PDF]
, 2017 Today, one in five hospital deaths happens in the intensive care unit with the expectation of twice as many by 2030. Increasing, mortality has triggered a growing attention to end-of-life (EOL) care in the ICU.
Ghabeljoo, Jila
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