Treating distress at the end of life: The principle of double effect

AACN Advanced Critical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 340-344

  Campbell, Margaret L ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

CASE REPORT; COMA; ETHICS; FATALITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF; PAIN; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; COMA; CRITICAL CARE; DOUBLE EFFECT; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PAIN; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 55249119371     PISSN: 15597768     EISSN: 15597768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AACN.0000330386.72260.96     Document Type: Article

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