Ethics roundtable debate: Patients and surrogates want 'everything done' - What does 'everything' mean?

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Doig, Christopher ^a   Murray, Holt ^b   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^c   Kuiper, Michael ^d   Costa, Rubens ^e   Azoulay, Elie ^f   Crippen, David ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^e HOSPITAL PRÓ CARDÍACO   (Brazil)

^f SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTUBATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CUSTODY; ETHICS; LONG TERM CARE; RESUSCITATION;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PROXY; RESUSCITATION ORDERS;

EID: 34447631201     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5016     Document Type: Review

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