INTRODUCTION
As intensive care practices and facilities improved and became more widely available, it became a more
common occurrence for severely brain damaged patients to be supported with mechanical ventilation.
There has never been an actual statutory definition of death in the United Kingdom, unlike in the United
States of America, and this was one factor that led to [...]
Tags: brainstem death, dillema, intensive care unit, Neurologist
improve the care of intensive care unit (ICU) patients during the
dying process. The recommendations build on those published in
2003 and highlight recent developments in the field from a U.S.
perspective. They do not use an evidence grading system because
most of the recommendations are based on ethical and legal
principles that are not derived from empirically based evidence.
Principal [...]
Tags: decision making, End-of-life, ethics, intensive care unit, palliative care, quality improvement