... infrastructure, a fragmented opposition, and little hope for a peaceful solution. infrastructure Rhodesia nationalism withdrawing opposition This content is only available as a PDF. ...

... problems, including organ donation and withholding/withdrawing, that can occur in the acutely ill adult cardiac patient, starting with a brief look at the ethical principles that should guide our decision making: beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and distributive justice. The role of advance...

... overlap and confusion. • Make your strategy drive your organization, not the reverse. passage suggests withdrawing sovereign punishment This content is only available as a PDF. ...

... questions clinicians ought to consider before making the decision to withhold or withdraw LST. This practical guide should enable clinicians to accurately identify the issues relevant to a given case and to make decisions that are both medically and ethically sound. withholding/withdrawing life sustaining...

...This chapter discusses issues in starting dialysis, withdrawing from dialysis, and withholding dialysis. It begins by highlighting some general principles of communications between people with established renal failure and the professionals looking after them. A general overview of these principles...

... that is being voiced in terms of the issues being raised and the ways of speaking about them. The chapter also discusses withdrawing care and ethical concerns. aggressive treatment death dying end of life care medical advancements and dying process nursing staff physicians social workers adolescents...

...Jeffrey Bulger The right of patients to withhold and withdraw from healthcare treatment is based on the principle of autonomy and the moral obligation of practitioners to pursue the patient’s best interests and “first do no harm.” The patient’s autonomy is protected through informed consent, living...

... might affect the ways in which parents and caregivers make treatment decisions. It examines the neonatal context in light of five aspects of Catholic teaching—the dignity of the human person, patient decision making, withholding and withdrawing treatment, palliative care, and Catholic social thought...

..., withdrawal of life support (checklist and communication), providing prognostic information, quality indicators for end-of-life care in the ICU, and symptom assessment and management in the ICU. Further Reading Nelson JE , Curtis JR , Mulkerin C , et al. Choosing and using screening criteria...

... after cardiac death is described and its ethical justification is questioned. . Several other controversial ethical issues are analyzed, including the distinction between withholding and withdrawing of treatment, withdrawing medically provided hydration and nutrition from infants who...

... that the pediatrician adopt the course of action that is most consistent with the nature and goal of medicine understood as a healing profession rooted in and requiring a relationship of mutual trust. medical ethics pediatrician relationships decision-making assent confidentiality truth-telling withdrawing...

...Oxford University Press Technological advances allow healthcare providers to delay the dying process for critically and terminally ill patients. For patients lingering between life and death, decisions frequently need to be made regarding withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatmentssuch...

...A traditional norm of medical ethics is that doctors must not intentionally cause the death of their patients. However, withdrawing life-sustaining treatment has become a common practice in hospital intensive care units. This practice has been made consistent with the traditional norm by means...

... aside uncertainty about outcome. A second, more objective approach relies on the idea of balancing up positives and negatives for the child, and allowing treatment withdrawal if negatives outweigh the positives. Again, there are formidable practical and philosophical problems in performing any...

...An alternative ethical justification for withdrawing life-sustaining treatment would be to allow disabled newborn infants or children to die where this would allow parents to have another (unimpaired) child. Replacement has been argued to be an important factor for decisions by several philosophers...

...One way of reducing uncertainty in prognosis is to continue treatment until the patient’s prognosis is clearer. But the risk is that the child is no longer dependent on intensive forms of life support, and may survive with very severe impairment. There is a ‘window of opportunity’ to withdraw life...

... if they are assessed and found to lack capacity. However, patients and families are encouraged to make advance statements and decisions about treatment in the event of losing capacity. Decisions on whether to give, withdraw, or withhold treatment, artificial hydration and nutrition, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation...

... is applicable. The person/human distinction is rejected in the context of human rights law. The key issue in withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment is not whether the right to life is applicable (for, in respect of a not yet brain dead human being, it will always be applicable) but rather what steps...

...). There are also different types of end-of life decision including decisions not to provide potentially life-prolonging therapies, and decisions to actively end the life of the patient. This book focuses on decisions about withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, and particularly on quality of life...

...How does uncertainty affect the interests at stake in decisions about life-sustaining treatment and the ethics of withdrawing treatment? This chapter looks first at the relationship between the interests of the child and the interests of parents. These interests overlap in several different ways...