Withdraw life sustaining treatment and organ donation

Physicians' decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment.

BACKGROUND Few data are available about physicians' decisions in regard to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining measures. We therefore studied internists' views on this subject. METHODS We surveyed 1000 generalist and subspecialist internists about their views on withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. Thirty-two hypothetical cases were included. The effect of the demograp...

Interveners or Interferers: Intervention in Decisions to Withhold and Withdraw Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment

An important feature of our judicial system is the discretion a court has to allow an individual or (more usually) a group who is not a party to proceedings to intervene in a dispute between others. While historically it has been comparatively rare for a non-party to become involved in litigation, over the past fifteen years, courts appear to have become more willing to allow such intervention....

Futile or fruitful: the charter and the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.

Organ donation: the gift of life.

Organ donation.

Transplantation is now an established form of treatment for organ failure in childhood. Much has been published on the outcome and management of children with organ transplants, the ethical issues have been widely discussed, and the criteria for the diagnosis of brain death have been established. Most transplanted organs are taken from donors who are brain dead but have a circulation and are be...