How to respond to family demands for futile life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 3339-3340

  Weil, M H ^a   Weil, C J ^a  

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Author keywords

Biomedical ethics; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Durable powers; Life support; Living will

Indexed keywords

FAMILY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0033806760     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200009000-00037     Document Type: Short Survey

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