| Autor: | David T. Lowenthal, Javier Maruenda, Vineesh Bhatnagar |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
Nephrology
medicine.medical_specialty Activities of daily living Next of kin Ethical issues business.industry Urology medicine.medical_treatment Disease End stage renal disease Quality of life (healthcare) Internal medicine medicine Geriatrics and Gerontology Intensive care medicine business Dialysis |
| Zdroj: | Geriatric Nephrology and Urology. 8:111-114 |
| ISSN: | 0924-8455 |
| DOI: | 10.1023/a:1008243226619 |
| Popis: | Decisions to treat in all disease states or not to treat imposes a total approach for rationale judgements in patient care. Ethical issues to dialyze an old person, to initiate chemotherapy in a nonagenarian, or to withdraw treatment all can impact on the physiologic changes with age, the underlying pathophysiology of end stage renal disease (ESRD) and either enhance pharmacodynamic events or cause them to cease by withdrawing treatment. The following discussion is an attempt to document the critical interplay between nephrologist and geriatrician, patient and next of kin in clinical decision-making involving the ethic of dialysis in the elderly. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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