Medical Futility
Mostrando 1-5 de 5 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. A case of severe glutathione synthetase deficiency with novel GSS mutations
Glutathione synthetase deficiency (GSSD) is a rare inborn error of glutathione metabolism with autosomal recessive inheritance. The severe form of the disease is characterized by acute metabolic acidosis, usually present in the neonatal period with hemolytic anemia and progressive encephalopathy. A case of a male newborn infant who had severe metabolic acido
Braz J Med Biol Res. Publicado em: 11/01/2018
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2. Suggestion of recommendations for initiation or not of intensive care in prematures born at the threshold of viability in Brazil / Proposta de recomendações para iniciar ou não cuidados intensivos em recém-nascidos pretermo no limite de viabilidade no Brasil
Despite recent advances in neonatal intensive care, prematures born at less than 25 weeks gestation have high rates of morbidity and mortality. Parents and doctors face difficult decisions concerning instituting and/or continuing resuscitation and intensive care of these babies. This is, therefore, a complex ethical/moral problem with a strong impact on the
Publicado em: 2010
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3. SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PHYSICIANS AND NURSES ABOUT DYSTHANASIA IN AN ICU / REPRESENTAÇÕES SOCIAIS DE MÉDICOS E ENFERMEIROS SOBRE DISTANÁSIA EM UTI
Esta pesquisa objetivou compreender as representações sociais de médicos e enfermeiros acerca do investimento excessivo no paciente terminal durante o processo de cuidar em uma UTI Adulto. Os objetivos específicos visaram descrever como médicos e enfermeiros significam terminalidade de vida e o investimento excessivo no paciente terminal; investigar com
Publicado em: 2009
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4. Surrogate Decision Makers' Responses to Physicians' Predictions of Medical Futility
American College of Chest Physicians.
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5. Some Thoughts on Interdisciplinary Science *
The development of the “new biology” is largely a story of developments in interdisciplinary science. This paper considers a few of these of special interest to the author and active at the University of Rochester; namely, dental research, biophysics, radiation biology, health physics, biomedical engineering, and space biology. Rochester pioneered advanc