The world's major religions' points of view on end-of-life decisions in the intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 423-430

  Bülow, Hans Henrik ^a   Sprung, Charles L ^b   Reinhart, Konrad ^c   Prayag, Shirish ^d   Du, Bin ^e   Armaganidis, Apostolos ^f   Abroug, Fekri ^g   Levy, Mitchell M ^h  

^a Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care   (Denmark)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d Shree Medical Foundation   (India)

^e PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^f NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^h RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain death; End of life; Ethics; Intensive care; Palliation; Religion

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DEATH; CHRISTIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOSLEM; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS GROUP; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 43049088420     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0973-8     Document Type: Review

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