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End of life in the critically ill patient: evaluation of experience of end of life by caregivers (EOLE study)

Annals of Intensive Care, 2021
Background The death rate in intensive care units (ICUs) can reach 20%. More than half occurs after a decision of care withholding/withdrawal. We aimed at describing and evaluating the experience of ICU physicians and nurses involved in the end-of-life ...
The SRLF Trial Group
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Physiological Responses of Potato to Short-Term Drought Treatment

Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2016
The study aimed to identify physiological response of potato to drought. For this aim, a drought experiment was carried out by using two different potato varieties, cv.
İlknur Tındaş, Ufuk Demirel
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Withdrawal from long-term hemodialysis in patients with end-stage renal disease in Taiwan

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2013
Withdrawal from dialysis is ethically appropriate for some patients with multiple comorbidities and a shortened life expectancy. Taiwan has the highest prevalence of dialysis patients in the world, and the National Health Insurance (NHI) program offers ...
Chun-Fu Lai, Hung-Bin Tsai, Su-Hsuan Hsu, Chih-Kang Chiang, Jenq-Wen Huang, Sheng-Jean Huang   +5 more
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Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: Experiences in limiting futile therapy from three Polish intensive care departments.

Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 2018
BACKGROUND In intensive care units (ICUs), a patient's vital functions may be maintained, regardless of the patient's chances of survival. A key issue is how to precisely determine the moment in which life-support treatment should be withheld.
J. Siewiera, D. Tomaszewski, J. Piechocki, A. Kübler   +3 more
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Renouncement of renal replacement therapy: withdrawal and refusal

Brazilian Journal of Nephrology
Renouncement of renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a medical dilemma. This review covers the concept, the magnitude, the prognosis, and discusses strategies and management approaches about this subject in patients with CKD and AKI. Evidence suggests that
José Andrade Moura Neto, Ana Flávia de Souza Moura, José Hermógenes Rocco Suassuna   +2 more
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Tracking Motor Progression and Device‐Aided Therapy Eligibility in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To characterise the progression of motor symptoms and identify eligibility for device‐aided therapies in Parkinson's disease, using both the 5‐2‐1 criteria and a refined clinical definition, while examining differences across genetic subgroups.
David Ledingham, Sahana Sathyanarayana, Charlotte B. Stewart, Robyn Iredale, Victoria Foster, Debra Galley, Mark Baker, Nicola Pavese   +7 more
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Withholding and withdrawing life-support in adults in emergency care: joint position paper from the French Intensive Care Society and French Society of Emergency Medicine

Annals of Intensive Care, 2019
For many patients, notably among elderly nursing home residents, no plans about end-of-life decisions and palliative care are made. Consequently, when these patients experience life-threatening events, decisions to withhold or withdraw life-support raise
Jean Reignier, Anne-Laure Feral-Pierssens, Thierry Boulain, Françoise Carpentier, Pierrick Le Borgne, Denis Del Nista, Gilles Potel, Sandrine Dray, Delphine Hugenschmitt, Alexandra Laurent, Agnès Ricard-Hibon, Thierry Vanderlinden, Tahar Chouihed, For the French Society of Emergency Medicine (Société Française de Médecine d’Urgence, SFMU) and French Intensive Care Society (Société de Réanimation de Langue Française, SRLF)   +13 more
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Lessons Learned From a Delayed‐Start Trial of Modafinil for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Freezing of gait (FOG) in people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) is debilitating and has limited treatments. Modafinil modulates beta/gamma band activity in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), like PPN deep brain stimulation. We therefore tested the hypothesis that Modafinil would improve FOG in PwPD.
Tuhin Virmani, Lakshmi Pillai, Reid D. Landes, Aliyah Glover, Shannon Doerhoff, Jennifer Kleiner, Mitesh Lotia, Rohit Dhall, Edgar Garcia‐Rill   +8 more
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Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Saving Treatment: Ordinary/Extraordinary Means, Autonomy & Futility

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2018
This paper sketches three principles in thinking about withholding and withdrawing lifesaving treatments from an ethical perspective: 1) the principle of ordinary and extraordinary means, 2) the principle of respect for patient autonomy and 3) the ...
Alan Kearns, Bert Gordijn
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Clinical Spectrum and Outcomes of SOX1 Antibody‐Associated Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes: A Chinese Cohort Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background SOX1 antibody‐positive paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) exhibit significant population‐specific clinical heterogeneity. While Western cohorts predominantly manifest Lambert‐Eaton myasthenic syndrome (65%–80%), comprehensive clinical characterization and treatment response data in Asian populations remain critically ...
Jin‐Long Ye, Zu‐Ying Kuang, Bo Li, Meng‐Qiu Pan, Li‐Hua Zhou, Yang‐Yang Dai, Si‐Fen Xie, Xian‐Guang Lin, Ye‐Peng Hu, Li‐Hong Jiang, Zhan‐Hang Wang, Wei‐Jing Zhang   +11 more
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