Euthanasia in intensive care: A 56-year-old man with a pontine hemorrhage resulting in a locked-in syndrome

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2428-2430

  Kompanje, Erwin J O ^a   De Beaufort, Inez D ^a   Bakker, Jan ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Euthanasia; Intensive care; Locked in syndrome; Pontine lesions

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM; THIOPENTAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPHONIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE AGED; PONS; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 34748821195     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000281854.12364.F5     Document Type: Article

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