End-of-life Care in the Intensive Care Unit: Better Late Than Never?
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End of Life in Intensive Care Unit
Intensive care unit (ICU) is a setting in which the most technologically and advanced treatments are used to manage severe and acute diseases. The aim of such life sustaining treatment is to preserve and restore the critical patient’s lifequality [1]. Therefore, the nature of ICU is to give the best life care to discharge the patients previously admitted. Nevertheless, the ICU hasbecome a commo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0972-5229,1998-359X
DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23496