End-of-life issue in the intensive care unit:
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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: Journal of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1340-7988,1882-966X
DOI: 10.3918/jsicm.14.133