Jennie Thomas
Jennie Thomas
Making difficult healthcare decisions is often helped by consultation with a bioethics committee. This article reviews the main bioethics principles, when it is appropriate and how to call a bioethics consult, ethical concerns, and members ...
Susan L Vogel
Susan L Vogel
Hospice is both a philosophy and a system of care that attends to the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients at the end of life as well as family members. The author details hospice care as it exists in the United States, f...
Robin B Rome,Hillary H Luminais,Deborah A Bourgeois et al.
Robin B Rome et al.
The goal of palliative care is to relieve the suffering of patients and their families by the comprehensive assessment and treatment of physical, psychosocial, and spiritual symptoms experienced by patients. As death approaches, a patient's...
Cardiac implantable electrical devices: bioethics and management issues near the end of life [0.03%]
心脏起搏器的伦理及末期照护问题
Freddy M Abi-Samra
Freddy M Abi-Samra
Cardiac implantable electrical devices (CIEDs) are extremely sophisticated modern devices that provide patients with many beneficial effects, including increased survival and enhanced quality of life. CIEDs, however, may complicate and unne...
Michael C Townsend
Michael C Townsend
Patients with advanced or incurable preexisting illnesses often develop acute surgical emergencies. The decision to proceed with aggressive surgical intervention or provide comfort measures and symptomatic relief is often difficult. This ar...
Geoffrey Keith Mitchell
Geoffrey Keith Mitchell
Australia is a very large country with a relatively small, diverse population. Palliative care is delivered by a range of professionals, from general (family) practitioners and community care nurses to large tertiary referral palliative car...
Ann Koppel,Shelley M Sullivan
Ann Koppel
End-of-life directives are among the most difficult decisions that a patient or a patient's family makes because of the many moral, ethical, legal, and practical considerations. This article addresses the basic legal framework in Louisiana ...