Ethics roundtable debate: Withdrawal of tube feeding in a patient with persistent vegetative state where the patients wishes are unclear and there is family dissension

The decision to withdraw or withhold life supporting treatment in moribund patients is difficult under any circumstances. When the patient becomes incompetent to clarify their wishes regarding continued maintenance in long-term facilities, surrogates sometimes cannot agree, further clouding the issu...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Crit Care
Hauptverfasser:	Buckley, Tom, Crippen, David, DeWitt, Anthony L, Fisher, Malcolm, Liolios, Antonios, Scheetz, Christine L, Whetstine, Leslie M
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	BMC 2004
Schlagworte:	Commentary
Online-Zugang:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC420027/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15025760/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1186/cc2451
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