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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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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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End-of-life discussions reduce the utilization of life-sustaining treatments during the last three months of life in cancer patients

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, Yun-Ju Lai, Yu-Yen Chen, Shuo-Ju Chiang, Yi-Fan Tsai, Li-Fei Hsu, Pei-Hung Chuang, Chu-Chieh Chen, Yung-Feng Yen   +8 more
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Care of patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments: an ICU nurse perspective

BMC Nursing
Background 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, Dayeong Kim, Yoon Sung Cho, Younjae Oh   +3 more
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Shared Decision-making in Emergency Life-sustaining Treatment

Yixue yu zhexue
Shared decision-making (SDM) model has been widely recognized in the world, but its practice in China is still in the exploratory stage. SDM has a broad implementation prospect in emergency department, where patients with serious illness and their family
Jun WU, Shu LI
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Contribution of information about acute and geriatric characteristics to decisions about life-sustaining treatment for old patients in intensive care

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Background Life-sustaining treatment (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is withheld or withdrawn when there is no reasonable expectation of beneficial outcome.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, P. Vernon van Heerden, Dylan W. de Lange, Wojciech Szczeklik, Susannah Leaver, Bertrand Guidet, Hans Flaatten, Christian Jung, Sigal Sviri, Leo Joskowicz   +9 more
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The Constitutional Right to Die: Ethical Considerations [PDF]

, 1997
In this commentary, the author first looks at some ethical reasoning supporting physician-assisted dying. Second, he examines some of the lines that have been drawn between withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatment on the one hand, and ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Predictors and outcomes of withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units in Singapore: a multicentre observational study

Journal of Intensive Care
Background Clinical practice guidelines on limitation of life-sustaining treatments (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU), in the form of withholding or withdrawal of LST, state that there is no ethical difference between the two.
Clare Fong, Wern Lunn Kueh, Sennen Jin Wen Lew, Benjamin Choon Heng Ho, Yu-Lin Wong, Yie Hui Lau, Yew Woon Chia, Hui Ling Tan, Ying Hao Christopher Seet, Wen Ting Siow, Graeme MacLaren, Rohit Agrawal, Tian Jin Lim, Shir Lynn Lim, Toon Wei Lim, Vui Kian Ho, Chai Rick Soh, Duu Wen Sewa, Chian Min Loo, Faheem Ahmed Khan, Chee Keat Tan, Roshni Sadashiv Gokhale, Chuin Siau, Noelle Louise Siew Hua Lim, Chik-Foo Yim, Jonathen Venkatachalam, Kumaresh Venkatesan, Naville Chi Hock Chia, Mei Fong Liew, Guihong Li, Li Li, Su Mon Myat, Zena Zena, Shuling Zhuo, Ling Ling Yueh, Caroline Shu Fang Tan, Jing Ma, Siew Lian Yeo, Yiong Huak Chan, Jason Phua, for SICM-NICER group   +40 more
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A study of the documentation of withholding and withdrawing life‐sustaining therapies in a tertiary intensive care unit in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
Background In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), recommended end‐of‐life (EOL) care practice encompasses do‐not‐attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR), withholding (WH), and withdrawing (WD) life‐sustaining treatment (LST).
Duncan Ka‐Hin Lam, Wai‐Tat Wong, Gavin Matthew Joynt   +2 more
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Heart Failure Anticoagulation Teach-Back Education and Readmissions [PDF]

, 2020
: Heart failure affects millions of Americans each year. Treatment of advanced heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and left ventricular failure is sometimes treated with implantation of a left-ventricular assist device.

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