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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

FJ - Chirurgie včetně transplantologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2006

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

XXXV World Congress of the International College of Surgeons

ISBN

8875873046

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

3

Strana od-do

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Název nakladatele

Medimond

Místo vydání

Bologna

Místo konání akce

Pattaya (Thailand)

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2006

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000245373300035