Analysis of terminal events in 109 successive deaths in a Belgian intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1224-1227

  Gajewska, Kalina ^a   Schroeder, Michele ^a   De Marre, Francoise ^a   Vincent, Jean Louis ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Critical care; End of life decision; Ethics; Intensive care unit; Withdrawal; Withholding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BRAIN DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK; TIME OF DEATH; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BELGIUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 3042644560     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-004-2308-3     Document Type: Article

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