Making Medical Treatment Decisions for Unrepresented Patients in the ICU. An Official American Thoracic Society/American Geriatrics Society Policy Statement

Background and Rationale: ICU clinicians regularly care for patients who lack capacity, an applicable advance directive, and an available surrogate decision-maker. Although there is no consensus on terminology, we refer to these patients as “unrepresented.” There is considerable controversy about ho...

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Autores principales: Pope, Thaddeus M., Bennett, Joshua, Carson, Shannon S., Cederquist, Lynette, Cohen, Andrew B., DeMartino, Erin S., Godfrey, David M., Goodman-Crews, Paula, Kapp, Marshall B., Lo, Bernard, Magnus, David C., Reinke, Lynn F., Shirley, Jamie L., Siegel, Mark D., Stapleton, Renee D., Sudore, Rebecca L., Tarzian, Anita J., Thornton, J. Daryl, Wicclair, Mark R., Widera, Eric W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Thoracic Society 2020
Materias:
American Thoracic Society Documents
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7233335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32412853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202003-0512ST

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