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Possible predicative role of electrical risk score on transcatheter aortic valve replacement outcomes in older patients. preliminary data [PDF]
, 2018 Background:Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is an effective procedure capable to change the natural history of the degenerative aortic valve stenosis.
DI IORIO, Claudia +9 more
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Choosing wisely at the end of life: the crucial role of medical indication
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2016 At the end of life, several treatments are administered routinely that lack medical indication and may cause significant harm to patients. Examples include artificial hydration and oxygen therapy in the dying phase, as well as enteral nutrition in ...
Gian Domenico Borasio, Ralf J. Jox
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Frontiers in PediatricsBackgroundPotentially inappropriate treatment in critically ill adults is associated with healthcare provider distress and burnout. Knowledge regarding perceived potentially inappropriate treatment amongst pediatric healthcare providers is limited ...
Amrita Sarpal +10 more
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Following on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: The Dynamic Shareholder Derivative Suit [PDF]
, 2013 Corporations that have allegedly violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) increasingly face a new threat of liability: cases brought by private plaintiffs in follow-on derivative suits.
Jara, Gabriela
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Conditional Estimation in Two-stage Adaptive Designs
, 2017 We consider conditional estimation in two-stage sample size adjustable designs and the following bias. More specifically, we consider a design which permits raising the sample size when interim results look rather promising, and, which keeps the ...
Broberg, Per, Miller, Frank
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The Missed Appointment: A Resident\u27s Journal through Activity to Introspection [PDF]
, 2011 There was one experience during my medical school psychiatry rotation that I could not forget. In a classroom on the cardiology ward, I listened, transfixed like a child at a magic show, as a psychiatrist interviewed a man who was recovering from a heart
Kaplan, MD, Marcia J.
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PLoS ONEBackgroundTranscatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) procedures are rapidly expanding, necessitating a more extensive stratification of patients with aortic stenosis.
Charlie Ferry +3 more
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Medical futility and physician discretion [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2004 Some patients have no chance of surviving if not treated, but very little chance if treated. A number of medical ethicists and physicians have argued that treatment in such cases is medically futile and a matter of physician discretion. This paper critically examines that position.According to Howard Brody and others, a judgment of medical futility is ...
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2004 Discutir os aspectos bioéticos da obstinação terapêutica, tendo em vista algumas de suas interseções no âmbito da saúde pública, é o escopo do presente artigo. Partindo-se de uma delimitação da finitude no bojo do debate filosófico e bioético sobre o fim
Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista +1 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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