Discussing Life-sustaining Therapy With Surrogate Decision Makers  

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Hwang, David Y.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Continuum vol. 23 no. 01 (Feb. 2017), page 254-258.
Topik: Life-sustaining Therapy
Fulltext: C17 v23 n1 p254 kelik2017.pdf (301.46KB)

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Clinicians caring for patients with severe stroke in intensive care units often grapple with requests from surrogate decision makers for life-prolonging treatment that members of the care team may believe to be futile. An example is a surrogate decision maker’s request to place a tracheostomy and feeding tube in a patient who, in the clinical judgment of the neurocritical care team, is very unlikely to recover interactive capacity. This article presents a case, discusses definitions of medical futility, and summarizes recommended steps for mediating conflict regarding potentially inappropriate treatment.

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