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Hemodialysis as a life-sustaining treatment at the end of life

The Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life came into effect on February 4th, 2018, in South Korea. Based on the Act, all Koreans over the age of 19 years can decide whether to refuse life-sustaining treatments at the end of lif...

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Autores principales: Shin, Sung Joon, Lee, Jae Hang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Nephrology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29971206
http://dx.doi.org/10.23876/j.krcp.2018.37.2.112
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description The Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life came into effect on February 4th, 2018, in South Korea. Based on the Act, all Koreans over the age of 19 years can decide whether to refuse life-sustaining treatments at the end of life via advance directive or physician orders. Hemodialysis is one of the options designated in the Act as a life-sustaining treatment that can be withheld or withdrawn near death. However, hemodialysis has unique features. So, it is not easy to determine the best candidates for withholding/withdrawing hemodialysis at the end of life. Thus, it is necessary to investigate the meaning and implications of hemodialysis at the end of life with ethical consideration of futility and withholding or withdrawal of intervention.
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spelling pubmed-60278132018-07-03 Hemodialysis as a life-sustaining treatment at the end of life Shin, Sung Joon Lee, Jae Hang Kidney Res Clin Pract Special Article The Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life came into effect on February 4th, 2018, in South Korea. Based on the Act, all Koreans over the age of 19 years can decide whether to refuse life-sustaining treatments at the end of life via advance directive or physician orders. Hemodialysis is one of the options designated in the Act as a life-sustaining treatment that can be withheld or withdrawn near death. However, hemodialysis has unique features. So, it is not easy to determine the best candidates for withholding/withdrawing hemodialysis at the end of life. Thus, it is necessary to investigate the meaning and implications of hemodialysis at the end of life with ethical consideration of futility and withholding or withdrawal of intervention. Korean Society of Nephrology 2018-06 2018-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6027813/ /pubmed/29971206 http://dx.doi.org/10.23876/j.krcp.2018.37.2.112 Text en Copyright © 2018 by The Korean Society of Nephrology This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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