Withholding Withdrawing Care
Mostrando 1-6 de 6 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. End of life in the neonatal intensive care unit
PURPOSE: Death at the beginning of life is tragic but not uncommon in neonatal intensive care units. In Portugal, few studies have examined the circumstances surrounding the final moments of neonates. We evaluated the care given to neonates and their families in terminal situations and the changes that had occurred one decade later. DESIGN AND METHODS: We an
Clinics. Publicado em: 2011
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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. Withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment in neonatal intensive care: issues for the 1990s.
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4. Withholding or Withdrawing Extraordinary Life Support—Optimizing Rights and Limiting Liability
For many years physicians, ethicists and members of the legal community have attempted to minimize ambiguity and unpredictability in making decisions to withhold or withdraw extraordinary life support. Recent developments in national and California law now afford medical care providers unparalleled protection from criminal and civil liability in surrogate de
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5. Ethical dilemmas in a cross-cultural context. A Chinese example.
Considerable attention is now being given to ethical conflicts raised by such issues as the disclosure of diagnosis and prognosis, the role of the family in making medical decisions, and the withholding or withdrawing of treatment of terminally ill patients. Already complicated, these issues take on added complexity in contexts where medical professionals an
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6. Withholding/withdrawing treatment from neonates: legislation and official guidelines across Europe.
Representatives from eight European countries compared the legal, ethical and professional settings within which decision making for neonates takes place. When it comes to limiting treatment there is general agreement across all countries that overly aggressive treatment is to be discouraged. Nevertheless, strong emphasis has been placed on the need for comp