Withdrawing Intensive Life-Sustaining Treatment — Recommendations for Compassionate Clinical Management
| Autor: | Margaret L. Campbell, Howard Brody, Kathy Faber-Langendoen, Karen S. Ogle |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Palliative care education MEDLINE Pain Risk Assessment Enteral Nutrition Professional Role Life sustaining treatment Nursing Professional-Family Relations Renal Dialysis medicine Humans Family Terminal Care Highly skilled Withholding Treatment business.industry Public health Uncertainty General Medicine Euthanasia Passive Respiration Artificial Life support Risk assessment business Ventilator Weaning Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 336:652-657 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejm199702273360910 |
| Popis: | Despite an ethical and legal consensus regarding the right of patients or their surrogates to refuse life-prolonging therapy, surveys show that dying patients in hospitals in the United States frequently receive unwanted interventions.1,2 One reason for this may be a lack of training among physicians and nurses in the clinical aspects of withdrawing intensive life support. Staff members are highly skilled in aggressive life-extending treatment, and some hospitals now have services specializing in palliative care for patients forgoing life-extending treatment. But there may be no one specifically trained in managing the transition from one style of care to the . . . |
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