What to do when a competent ICU patient does not want to live anymore but is dependent on life-sustaining treatment? Experience from The Netherlands

If patients on the intensive care unit (ICU) are awake and life-sustaining treatment is suspended because of the patients’ request, because of recovering from the disease, or because independence from organ function supportive or replacement therapy outside the ICU can no longer be achieved, these p...

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Autores principales: van der Hoven, Ben, de Groot, Yorick J., Thijsse, Wilhelmina J., Kompanje, Erwin J. O.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
Materias:
Legal and Ethical Issues
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20689937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-010-1953-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20689937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-010-1953-y

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