Outcome and ethics in severe brain damage

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 150, Issue , 2005, Pages 555-563

  Vincent, Jean Louis ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN INJURY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; EXTUBATION; FAMILY; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; ETHICS, CLINICAL; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; NEUROLOGY; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 25644434762     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(05)50039-6     Document Type: Review

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