life-sustaining treatment
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treatment
noun
uk/ˈtriːt.mənt/us/ˈtriːt.mənt/
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Withdrawing intensivelife-sustainingtreatment: recommendations for compassionate clinical management.
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Although the preferences of physicians and nurses divided almost equally betweenlife-sustainingtreatmentand comfort care, in every case the surrogate preferred to continuelife-sustainingtreatment.
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Impact of patient competence on decisions to use or withholdlife-sustainingtreatment.
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Approximately one third of dying patients received activelife-sustainingtreatmentat time of death.
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Nor can withdrawinglife-sustainingtreatmentbe defended as permissible on the ground that it does.
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No place to go: refusal oflife-sustainingtreatmentby competent persons with physical disabilities.
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But the courts give differing accounts of why withdrawinglife-sustainingtreatmentresults in a natural death.
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The decision to discontinue or not providelife-sustainingtreatmenthas been made by the appropriate proxy.
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The consensus on forgoinglife-sustainingtreatmentis simply the extension of this doctrine to end-of-life treatments.
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Forgoinglife-sustainingtreatmentis difficult for healthcare professionals, as well as for patients and their families.
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The bioethical principles on the use of antibiotics as alife-sustainingtreatmentshould always be followed.
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They found that of 1,039 hospitalized patients 91 (8.8%) had a decision to foregolife-sustainingtreatment.
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The assertion remains unsupported that most individuals do not care about or do not understand the implications of deciding in advance to refuselife-sustainingtreatment.
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The hospital had just adopted a policy specifying thatlife-sustainingtreatmentfor permanent unconsciousness was futile and, therefore, not indicated.
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Indeed, as long as lethal palliation is permitted, those distinctions cannot even place withdrawinglife-sustainingtreatmentand active euthanasia on different sides of the line.
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Of course, this extension tolife-sustainingtreatmentneeded to be affirmed and clarified because the state has an interest in preserving life.
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Withdrawinglife-sustainingtreatmentis permitted because it results in a natural death; active euthanasia is forbidden because it does not.
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In the typical case, a person refusinglife-sustainingtreatmentis hopelessly ill and suffering greatly, so is morally justified - in society's view - in choosing death.
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This circumstance was often cited to reinforce the principle that decisions aboutlife-sustainingtreatmentought usually to be made by patients or their surrogates.
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Terminally or incurably ill patients standardly refuselife-sustainingtreatment, and doctors allow these patients to die, for the patient's good.
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A quick glance at attitudes and practices surrounding forgoinglife-sustainingtreatmentreveals that the courts have certainly shaped our thinking.
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The major change as compared to the previous guidelines was a clear statement that decisioncapable patients have a right to refrain fromlife-sustainingtreatment.
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Merely making appeals to beneficence and autonomy, for instance, will not likely suffice to reverse the decision of parents to withhold potentiallylife-sustainingtreatmentfor their child.
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Specifically, are these hospitals willing to accept the transfer of a permanently unconscious patient or others for whom another hospital has deemed furtherlife-sustainingtreatmentfutile?
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