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Palliative care in the intensive care unit: fundamental aspects, ethical frameworks, and challenges in the Brazilian context [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine
Significant medical advancements over the last century have reduced in-hospital mortality but raised concerns about prolonged hospitalizations and aggressive treatments potentially compromising the quality of life of critically ill patients.
Brenno Cardoso Gomes, Anibal Basile Filho, Joao M. Silva, Joao M. Silva   +3 more
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Changes in the incidence of cardiopulmonary resuscitation before and after implementation of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Act [PDF]

Acute and Critical Care, 2022
Background The Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) Decisions Act allows withholding and withdrawal of LST, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Hyunjae Im, Hyun Woo Choe, Seung-Young Oh, Ho Geol Ryu, Hannah Lee   +4 more
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Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders from an Islamic Perspective

Darulfunun Ilahiyat, 2022
In modern medicine and technologies, it is commonly accepted and recognized by the laws in western countries that patients have decision-making rights regarding the end of their lives.
Hatice Kübra Memiş
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Similarities and Differences Between the Jewish, Catholic and Islamic Religious Communities in Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life in Palliative Care [PDF]

Edinost in Dialog, 2022
Ethical dilemmas in nursing are most pronounced in palliative and end-of-life care, where we meet the most demanding and complex needs of nursing care.
Rok Mihelič, Edvard Jakšič, Erika Zelko   +2 more
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A REVIEW ON DECISION PROTOCOL AND FATWA IN MALAYSIA DISCUSSING ISSUE OF WITHHOLDING AND WITHDRAWAL OF LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, 2021
Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments is one of the hot topics discussing in intensive care unit as most of the death occurs as a result of it.
Muhamad Rafiqi Hehsan, Wan Fadzlina Wan Muhd Shukeri   +1 more
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Clinical Factors Influencing End-of-Life Care in a Chinese Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Retrospective, post-hoc Study

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
Objective: End-of-life(EOL) care decision-making for infants and children is a painful experience. The study aimed to explore the clinical factors influencing the EOL care to withhold/withdraw life-sustaining treatment (WLST) in Chinese pediatric ...
Yueniu Zhu, Xiaodong Zhu, Lili Xu, Mengyan Deng   +3 more
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Consequence of Sprinkling with Nano Zinc and Nano Selenium as well as Potassium Silicate on Yields And Excellence of Wheat Grains under Water Stress Conditions [PDF]

Journal of Plant Production, 2021
Toward decide the consequence of treating with nano zinc and nano selenium as well as potassium silicate as foliar application on, yield and excellence of bread wheat grains underneath water stress situations during 2019 for each 2020 and 2020 for each ...
Samar Ghazy, W. Abido, S. Seadh
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Withdrawing or withholding treatments in health care rationing: an interview study on ethical views and implications

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background When rationing health care, a commonly held view among ethicists is that there is no ethical difference between withdrawing or withholding medical treatments.
Liam Strand, Lars Sandman, Gustav Tinghög, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund   +3 more
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Preoperative Cessation of Both Dual Anti-Platelet Agents Is Safe after 1 Year in Patients Receiving Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Journal of Lipid and Atherosclerosis, 2020
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the atherothrombotic and bleeding risk of discontinuing both components of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) before surgery in patients with an intracoronary stent after 1 year.
Jeen Hwa Lee, Sang Ho Jo
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Long-term Outcomes after the Discontinuation of Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Therapy in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease under Clinical Remission: A Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Disease Multicenter Study

Gut and Liver, 2021
Background/Aims: Our study aimed to evaluate the long-term outcomes and risk factors for relapse after anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α cessation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients because they are not well established.
Joo Hye Song, Eun Ae Kang, Soo-Kyung Park, Sung Noh Hong, You Sun Kim, Ki Bae Bang, Kyeong Ok Kim, Hong Sub Lee, Sang-Bum Kang, Seung Yong Shin, Eun Mi Song, Jong Pil Im, Chang Hwan Choi, IBD Research Group of the Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases   +13 more
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