Withholding and Withdrawing Life-sustaining Therapy in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

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angličtina
Original language name
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-sustaining Therapy in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Original language description
The decision to limit life-sustaining treatment in the surgical ICU should be based on widely held ethical principles such as autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and distributive justice. The withholding and withdrawing of life support is frequent insurgical critically ill patients. Empirical research into the use of do-not-resuscitate orders suggest that there is no broad agreement on which patients should not be resuscitated [1]. It is strongly recommended that research be conducted to improve end-of-life care [2]. The withholding and withdrawing of life support was frequent in surgical critically ill patients. In the study no trends were found in life-sustaining therapy in the following period. The proportion of deaths preceded by the withdrawalor by the withholding of life support ranges from 0% to 79%, in this study it was 54.4%. Intensive care management of patients with malignancy raises controversy [3]. In the group of patients who died and had a malignant tumour, the prop
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Publication year
2006
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
XXXV World Congress of the International College of Surgeons
ISBN
8875873046
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Number of pages
3
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Publisher name
Medimond
Place of publication
Bologna
Event location
Pattaya (Thailand)
Event date
Jan 1, 2006
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000245373300035

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