End-of-life discontinuation of destination therapy with cardiac and ventilatory support medical devices: Physician-assisted death or allowing the patient to die?

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Rady, Mohamed Y ^a,b   Verheijde, Joseph L ^a,b,c  

^a MAYO CLINIC HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED SUICIDE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHICS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PHYSICIAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

CAUSALITY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENTION; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PHYSICIANS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 77956532051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-11-15     Document Type: Article

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