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Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment for Pediatric Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
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JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 1990
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cruzan by Cruzan v. Harmon will have a major impact on how we will care for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Each healthcare institution will need to review its life-sustaining treatment policies to match the guidelines established by the Supreme Court.
C M, Smejkal, F J, Hill
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cruzan by Cruzan v. Harmon will have a major impact on how we will care for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Each healthcare institution will need to review its life-sustaining treatment policies to match the guidelines established by the Supreme Court.
C M, Smejkal, F J, Hill
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Heuristics and Life-Sustaining Treatments
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2012Surrogates' decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatments (LSTs) are pervasive. However, the factors influencing surrogates' decisions to initiate LSTs are relatively unknown. We present evidence from two experiments indicating that some surrogates' decisions about when to initiate LSTs can be predictably manipulated.
Adam, Feltz, Stephanie, Samayoa
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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 ...
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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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