Caring in crisis: Family perspectives on ventilator withdrawal at the end of life

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 169-176

  Bartels, D M ^a   Faber Langendoen, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; FAMILY COUNSELING; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0034988236     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0089446     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Withdrawing intensive life-sustaining treatment - Recommendations for compassionate, clinical management
2. Commentary: Non-abandonment - Physicians and nurses as allies
3. Life support in the intensive care unit: A qualitative investigation of the technological purposes
4. The process of foregoing life-sustaining treatment in a university hospital: An empirical study
5. Whose death is it, anyway?
6. The meaning of critical care illness to families
7. A mother's death: Family stories of illness
8. The negotiation of death: Clinical decision making at the end of life