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20 Σεπ 2024 · Ethical principles emphasize the distinction between withdrawing life-sustaining treatments and interventions aimed solely at hastening death, underscoring the importance of maintaining patient dignity. This activity focuses on identifying cases that warrant life support termination and implementing the appropriate protocols.
11 Μαρ 2014 · Introduction. One of the ethically most vexing decisions for clinical care providers is to withdraw a life-sustaining treatment. Many of the hallmark cases in American bioethics involve exactly that type of decision. In the case of Ms. Karen Quinlan [1], which is now half a century old, the treatment forgone was ventilation. Mr.
12 Μαρ 2021 · Emergency physicians aim to support life through all possible means unless an AD requests otherwise. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine published a best-practice guide for end-of-life care for adult patients in EDs.
The principle of patient autonomy requires that physicians respect the decision to forgo life-sustaining treatment of a patient who possesses decision-making capacity. Life-sustaining treatment is any treatment that serves to prolong life without reversing the underlying medical condition.
Aspects of ethics for resuscitation and end-of-life decisions. Ethics is defined as the ways of examining and understanding the moral life, or the application of ethical reasoning to medical decision making. The key principles of medical ethics are: autonomy of the individual, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice.
18 Νοε 2021 · The use of artificial maintenance of life support and organ transplant leads to introduce a new criterion of death determination of permanently nonfunctioning brain, called irreversible coma equated to brain death. In recent years, however, controversy has arisen about the clinical and ethical validity of the neurological standard.
The four principles of medical ethics – autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice – were originally described by Beauchamp and Childress in 1979 and have stood the test of time. 1 Emphasis on their relative importance has evolved, with autonomy appearing to become an overriding principle in developed countries that outweighs considerati...
