End-of-life in the pediatric intensive care unit: Seeking the family's decision of when and how, not if

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3122-3123

  Goldstein, B ^a   Merkens, M ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life; Foregoing; Life sustaining treatment; Neuromuscular blockade; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; EDITORIAL; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0033843949     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200008000-00095     Document Type: Editorial

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