Ethics roundtable: 'Open-ended ICU care: Can we afford it?'

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Crippen, David ^a   Burrows, Dick ^b   Stocchetti, Nino ^c   Mayer, Stephan A ^d   Andrews, Peter ^e   Bleck, Tom ^f,g   Whetstine, Leslie ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^g RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h WALSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; ETIRACETAM; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; KETAMINE; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FAMILY STRESS; FEEDING APPARATUS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPHOCYTIC PLEOCYTOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN ENDED INTENSIVE CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PLEOCYTOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEDATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HOSPITAL COST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ADULT; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 78651240119     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8962     Document Type: Review

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