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Withholding and withdrawing life support in critical care settings: ethical issues concerning consent

The right to refuse medical intervention is well established, but it remains unclear how best to respect and exercise this right in life support. Contemporary ethical guidelines for critical care give ambiguous advice, largely because they focus on the moral equivalence of withdrawing and withholdin...

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Main Authors: Gedge, E, Giacomini, M, Cook, D
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: BMJ Group 2007
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652778/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17400619
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.2006.017038
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