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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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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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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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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: Ethical Considerations
Surgical Clinics of North America, 2005Withdrawing life-supporting technology from patients who are irremediably ill is morally troubling for caregivers, patients, and families. Interventions that enable clinicians to delay death create situations in which the dignity and comfort of dying patients may be sacrificed to spare professionals and families from their elemental fear of death ...
Sharon, Reynolds +2 more
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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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Forgoing life-sustaining treatment in an Israeli ICU
Intensive Care Medicine, 1998To determine whether physicians in Israel withhold and/or withdraw life-sustaining treatments.A prospective, descriptive study of consecutively admitted patients. Patients were prospectively evaluated for diagnoses, types and reasons for foregoing life-sustaining treatment, mortality and times from foregoing therapy until mortality.A general intensive ...
L A, Eidelman +5 more
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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 ...
M, Danis +3 more
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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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