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Attaining Good End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units in Taiwan—The Dilemma And the Strategy

International Journal of Gerontology, 2009
One of the major challenges for intensivists is resolving the conflicting interests in end-of-life care. We reviewed patients' characteristics in an intensive care unit to determine the major barriers of practicing good end-of-life care and the medical ...
Shih-Yi Lee, Chung-Lieh Hung, Jun-Hua Lee, Shou-Chuan Shih, Yu-Ling Weng, Wen-Han Chang, Yueh-Hsiu Ho, Wen-Chu Huang, Yuen-Liang Lai   +8 more
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When can Muslims withdraw or withhold life support? A narrative review of Islamic juridical rulings

Global Bioethics, 2020
When it is ethically justifiable to stop medical treatment? For many Muslim patients, families, and clinicians this ethical question remains a challenging one as Islamic ethico-legal guidance on such matters remains scattered and difficult to interpret ...
Afshan Mohiuddin, Mehrunisha Suleman, Shoaib Rasheed, Aasim I. Padela   +3 more
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Predictors of consciousness improvement in patients with hypoglycemic encephalopathy

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022
AimsHypoglycemic encephalopathy (HE) can cause long-lasting mental changes, disability, and even death. We aimed to investigate prognostic factors for HE and to determine when the treatment of HE becomes futile.MethodsWe retrospectively evaluated the ...
Yu Eun Lee, Eun Ja Lee, Seung Eun Lee, Jinkyeong Park   +3 more
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Communication challenges in end-of-life decisions

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
With the progress in healthcare over recent decades and a growing life expectancy, discussions and decisions regarding end-of-life issues have become increasingly important. Especially in intensive care and emergency medicine there is a growing need of
Christoph Becker, Katharina Beck, Alessia Vincent, Sabina Hunziker   +3 more
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Characteristics and Outcomes of Potentially Inappropriate Admissions to the Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

Acute and Critical Care, 2019
Background Admission of patients perceived as potentially inappropriate for intensive care is a very sensitive and controversial issue. We aimed to evaluate the use of medical resources in the intensive care unit (ICU) and outcomes of patients according ...
Sooim Sin, Sang-Min Lee, Jinwoo Lee
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Impact of Asymptomatic Intracranial Hemorrhage on Outcome After Endovascular Stroke Treatment

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Endovascular treatment (EVT) achieves high rates of recanalization in acute large‐vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke, but functional recovery remains heterogeneous. While symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH) has been well studied, the prognostic impact of asymptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (aICH) after EVT is less certain ...
Shihai Yang, Chengsong Yue, Zhuang Li, Xiaolei Shi, Haoxuan Zhu, Jie Yang, Linyu Li, Jiaxing Song, Shitao Fan, Gaoming Li, Wenzhe Sun, Zhixian Ye, Jiacheng Huang, Dahong Yang, Jinfu Ma, Xu Xu, Zhixi Wang, Lilan Wang, Guojian Liu, Fengli Li, Changwei Guo, Li Qi, Wenjie Zi   +22 more
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Added Prognostic Value of EEG Reactivity in Comatose Patients Following Cardiac Arrest

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To evaluate the added prognostic value of EEG reactivity for favorable outcome compared with background analysis during and after targeted temperature management (TTM). Methods Prospective observational cohort study of comatose post–cardiac arrest patients admitted to a single academic center between 2017 and 2022, all undergoing ...
Sarah Caroyer, Marie Obrecht, Charlotte de Maeseneire, Charlotte Damien, Chantal Depondt, Lorenzo Ferlini, Estelle Rikir, Filippo Annoni, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Nicolas Mavroudakis, Benjamin Legros, Nicolas Gaspard   +11 more
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Knowledge and Practice of Medical Futility by Intensive Care Professionals

Revista Latinoamericana de Bioética
Recent technical and scientific advances in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) have introduced new ethical challenges for health professionals, particularly concerning the practice of medical futility. This study aimed to assess ICU professionals’ knowledge of
Sara Fernanda Hilgert, Luiz Bonamigo, Antuani Rafael Baptistella   +2 more
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Doing more does not mean doing better: the FADOI contribution to the Slow Medicine program for a sustainable and wise healthcare system

Italian Journal of Medicine, 2015
Consistently with its own vision on the necessity to implement a sustainable and frugal medicine, in 2013 the Italian Federation of Associations of Hospital Doctors in Internal Medicine (FADOI) decided to adhere to the Slow Medicine program entitled ...
Luigi Lusiani, Roberto Frediani, Roberto Nardi, Andrea Fontanella, Mauro Campanini   +4 more
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Comprehensive Assessment of Arterial, Tissue, and Venous Collaterals for Evaluating the Infarct Growth Rate: The Multimodal Collateral Score

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Collaterals are crucial factors that influence the infarct growth rate (IGR). We aimed to determine whether a comprehensive multimodal collateral score (MCS), incorporating collateral assessment at the arterial, tissue, and venous levels, is associated with functional independence and provides incremental prognostic value over ...
Giorgio Busto, Umberto Pensato, Ilaria Casetta, Giorgio U. Marcello, Angelo Barra, Anna Poggesi, Edoardo Carlesi, Sara Mancini, Andrea Ginestroni, Vittorio Miele, Alessandro Padovani, Andrea Morotti, Enrico Fainardi   +12 more
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