Life Sustaining Treatment
Attitudes and behaviors of Japanese physicians concerning withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for end-of-life patients: results from an Internet survey
... "life-sustaining treatment" that are generally used as if their definitions were unequivocal are, in reality, extremely relative in nature and entail sig- nificant differences in nuance ...
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Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Law: The Evolution of Informed Consent, Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making
... When the last several decades are reviewed, it is fascinating to consider the evolution of the law with respect to decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment-from [r] ...
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Uncomfortable bedfellows: Queensland criminal law and patients' rights to refuse life-sustaining treatment
... withdraws life-sustaining treatment from a patient under his or her charge would seem to be failing to comply with his or her duty under s ...withdraw life-sustaining treatment ...
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Completion rate of physician orders for life-sustaining treatment for patients with metastatic or recurrent cancer: a preliminary, cross-sectional study
... and Life-Sustaining Treat- ment Decision-Making Act passed the plenary session of the National Assembly in January ...regarding life- sustaining medical care through the Physician Orders for ...
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Significant social events and increasing use of life-sustaining treatment: trend analysis using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as an example
... a life-sustaining treatment in Taiwan: first, the higher incidence of cardiac or respiratory failure re- fractory to conventional treatments in Taiwan than that of the rest of the world; second, more ...
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The ethics of forgoing life-sustaining treatment: theoretical considerations and clinical decision making
... a life-sustaining treatment tends to be very challenging for health care providers, patients, and their family members ...s life seems to be nearing its end, it is generally felt that the ...
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Withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment: a comparative study of the ethical reasoning of physicians and the general public
... when treatment is clearly futile can its withholding be deemed ethically accepta- ble, and in such cases it is ethically equivalent to withdraw life- sustaining treatment ...such ...
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Investigation of the awareness of and demand for hospice care and attitudes towards life-sustaining treatment at the end of life among community residents in Hangzhou
... of life [20] as well as increased satisfaction with ...active life- sustaining treatment at the end of their ...of life-sustaining treatment at the end of pa- tients’ ...
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Life sustaining treatment decisions in Portuguese intensive care units: a national survey of intensive care physicians
... Discussion of these decisions is usually focused on who is or should be involved in the decision making process, and what are the criteria for making such decisions [1–5,9–14,16,18, 22,25,28–30]. The treating physician ...
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Construction of a Parent-Derived Questionnaire to Measure End-of-Life Care After Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the NICU Based on Parental Perceptions” during the National Association of Perinatal Social Workers Conference in Las Vegas, April ...
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Development and usability testing of Understanding Stroke, a tailored life-sustaining treatment decision support tool for stroke surrogate decision makers
... of life sustaining ...on life sustaining treatment during an acute hospitalization [6, 8–13], and none have been spe- cifically developed for stroke decision ...of treatment for ...
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Eligibility of patients withheld or withdrawn from life-sustaining treatment to organ donation after circulatory arrest death: epidemiological feasibility study in a French Intensive Care Unit
... Qualified as a worldwide shortage, the widening gap between organ demand (i.e., patients in terminal organ failure) and donor graft supply is forcing a rethink of the practical and ethical issues tied to organ ...
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When Life-Sustaining Treatment Is Withdrawn and the Patient Doesn’t Die
... withdraw life-sustaining ...which treatment withdrawal will lead to a prolonged dying ...without life support? What should doctors do next? We present a case in which that happened and asked 3 ...
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Post-Mortem Pregnancy: A Proposed Methodology for the Resolution of Conflicts over Whether a Brain Dead Pregnant Woman Should Be Maintained on Life-Sustaining Treatment
... Part I of this article endeavors to directly refute the Piazzi court's first holding by demonstrating that interests are not extinguished upon death; in fact, multip[r] ...
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Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: Experiences in limiting futile therapy from three Polish intensive care departments
... Differences in documenting the withdrawal/withholding of treatment may be based on legal and psychological fac- tors. On the one hand, the absence of legal regulations and medical guidelines on mandatory ...
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Neurocritical care physicians’ doubt about whether to withdraw life-sustaining treatment the first days after devastating brain injury: an interview study
... Prognostication involves assessing and communicating what to expect. Prognostic tools in severe brain injury patients have been developed, but are not reliable in individual patients. Individual assessments of prognosis ...
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Position statement on laws and regulations concerning life-sustaining treatment, including artificial nutrition and hydration, for patients lacking decision-making capacity
... proposed treatment or procedures are carried out and if they are not carried out, to enable the person giving con- sent to make an understanding and enlightened deci- sion without any element of force, fraud, ...
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An ethnographic study of critical care nurses’ experiences following the decision to withdraw life sustaining treatment from patients in a UK intensive care unit
... in life and exploring the reality of the environment and universe (Timmons and McSherry, ...withdraw treatment with the family at a private meeting in open, honest ...withdraw treatment from the ...
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Right to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment
... “The term Baby Doe refers to a severely disabled infant with a life-threatening condition who is de- nied appropriate medical treatment,” both reports. state[r] ...
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Should Neonatologists Give Opinions Withdrawing Life-sustaining Treatment?
... clinicians to take a comprehensive view of a child’s well-being, limits overemphasizing physical well-being and survival, and puts appropriate weight on the effects of a condition or treatment(s) on a child’s ...
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