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Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment
2021Considerations regarding withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments are not uncommon in the setting of devastating traumatic brain injury. In many complex cases, the best medical action may be to withdraw medication and life support technologies or to deny surgery.
Tamra-Lee McCleary, Stephen Honeybul
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Withholding and withdrawing treatment
2003Many years ago medicine could not offer critically ill patients very much apart from a sympathetic ear and a comforting word. Since then, thanks to technology, the art of medicine has made rapid progress. Today doctors can choose from a vast array of interventions that can keep almost anyone alive, sometimes almost indefinitely.
K. D. Rooney, N. A. Pace
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Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment
2001First of all, I would like to outline the use of the terms ‘withholding treatment’ and ‘withdrawing treatment’. They belong to the conceptual category of ‘medical decisions at the end of life’, including euthanasia. In contrast to killing, euthanasia only takes place when death is imminent — then and only then.
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Withholding or withdrawing treatment
International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 1999In 1999 the British Medical Association (BMA) published guidance on withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging medical treatment (BMA, 1999). Over 2000 people responded to the preceding consultation exercise, and the resulting document was long-awaited by many health professionals.
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The Physician's Authority to Withhold Futile Treatment
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1995The debate over futility is driven, in part, by physicians' desire to recover some measure of decision-making authority from their patients. The standard approach begins by noting that certain interventions are futile for certain patients and then asserts that doctors have no obligation to provide futile treatment.
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Withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatment
2013The ethics of decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining therapies are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the ethical and moral distinctions - or lack thereof - between withholding and withdrawing. The ethical principles informing decisions to forgo life-sustaining therapy are covered, along with the difficulty of making such decisions in ...
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Withholding life‐prolonging treatment
Anaesthesia, 2005S M, White, T J, Baldwin
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