Intensive care unit strain should not rush physicians into making inappropriate decisions, but merely reduce the time to the right decisions being made
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Role of clinical ethicists in making decisions about levels of care in the intensive care unit.
CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 29, No. 2, APRIL 2009 77 family challenged the health care team’s recommendations and insisted that their mother be readmitted to the ICU so that aggressive life-sustaining treatment would continue. This case, although Canadian, is relevant to ICU settings throughout North America. The purpose of this discussion is not to provide an indepth ethical analysis, but rather to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Translational Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2305-5839,2305-5847
DOI: 10.21037/atm.2016.07.27