Forgoing Treatment, Maintaining Care
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Dying patients in the intensive care unit: forgoing treatment, maintaining care.
End-of-life care of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) often requires dramatic shifts in attitudes and interventions, from traditional intensive rescue care to intensive palliative care. The care of patients dying in ICUs raises both clinical and ethical difficulties. Because fewer ICU patients are able to make decisions about withdrawing treatment, careful attention must be paid to prev...
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Pediatric health care is practiced with the goal of promoting the best interests of the child. Treatment generally is rendered under a presumption in favor of sustaining life. However, in some circumstances, the balance of benefits and burdens to the child leads to an assessment that forgoing life-sustaining medical treatment (LSMT) is ethically supportable or advisable. Parents are given wide ...
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QUESTION UNDER STUDY How do actual aspects of forgoing life supporting therapy (LST) in newborn infants compare with national ethical directives in a Swiss intensive care unit? METHODS A prospective set of data on deaths after forgoing LST over a three year period in a single intensive care unit is analysed in view of the directives issued by the Swiss Academy for Medical Sciences (SAMS). R...
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Forgoing artificial nutrition and hydration (FANH) in children at the end of life (EOL) is a medically, legally, and ethically acceptable practice under specific circumstances. However, most of the evidence on FANH involves dying adults. There is a paucity of pediatric evidence to guide health care providers' and parents' decision-making around this practice. Objectives...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Palliative Care
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0825-8597,2369-5293
DOI: 10.1177/082585970001601s03