Termination of resuscitation: The art of clinical decision making

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 224-229

  Larkin, Gregory Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; SURVIVAL;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CRITICAL CARE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS;

EID: 0036014517     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075198-200206000-00005     Document Type: Review

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