End-of-life Care in the Intensive Care Unit and Ethics of Withholding/Withdrawal of Life-sustaining Treatments
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| Název: | End-of-life Care in the Intensive Care Unit and Ethics of Withholding/Withdrawal of Life-sustaining Treatments |
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| Autoři: | Cortegiani A., Ippolito M., Mercadante S. |
| Zdroj: | Anesthesiology Clinics. 42:407-419 |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Elsevier BV, 2024. |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
| Témata: | Life Support Care, Terminal Care, Intensive Care Units, Withholding Treatment, Critical Care, Intensive care, End of life, Palliative Care, Palliative care, Humans, Life-sustaining treatments |
| Popis: | The medical progress has produced improvements in critically ill patients' survival to early phases of life-threatening diseases, thus producing long intensive care stays and persisting disability, with uncertain long-term survival rates and quality of life. Thus, compassionate end-of-life care and the provision of palliative care, even overlapping with the most aggressive of curative intensive care unit (ICU) care has become crucial. Moreover, withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining treatment may be adopted, allowing unavoidable deaths to occur, without prolonging agony or ICU stay. Our aim was to summarize the key element of end-of-life care in the ICU and the ethics of withholding/withdrawal life-sustaining treatments. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article |
| Popis souboru: | application/pdf |
| Jazyk: | English |
| ISSN: | 1932-2275 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.anclin.2024.02.008 |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39054016 https://hdl.handle.net/10447/647714 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2024.02.008 |
| Rights: | Elsevier TDM |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....f69dc0d209eba3736798b014ecf7ba1a |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | The medical progress has produced improvements in critically ill patients' survival to early phases of life-threatening diseases, thus producing long intensive care stays and persisting disability, with uncertain long-term survival rates and quality of life. Thus, compassionate end-of-life care and the provision of palliative care, even overlapping with the most aggressive of curative intensive care unit (ICU) care has become crucial. Moreover, withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining treatment may be adopted, allowing unavoidable deaths to occur, without prolonging agony or ICU stay. Our aim was to summarize the key element of end-of-life care in the ICU and the ethics of withholding/withdrawal life-sustaining treatments. |
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| ISSN: | 19322275 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.anclin.2024.02.008 |