Concepedia

Prehospital withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments. The French LATASAMU Survey

Édouard Ferrand, J. Marty

Intensive Care Medicine · 2006 · 50 citations · 24 references

Concepts

MedicineEmergency MedicinePalliative CarePalliative MedicinePrehospital Emergency CareEnd-of-life Decision MakingPrehospital Critical CarePrehospital Trauma CareWithdrawing Life-sustaining TreatmentWithdrawing TreatmentWithholding TreatmentEnd-of-life Care SupportPalliative Withdrawal Of TreatmentRefusal Of Life-sustaining TreatmentUse Of Life-sustaining TreatmentWithdrawal Of Life SupportWithdrawal Of Life-sustaining TherapyWithholding Of Treatment

References

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A controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients. The study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments (SUPPORT). The SUPPORT Principal Investigators

Alfred F. Connors, Neal V. Dawson, Norman A. Desbiens et al. · JAMA · 1995 · 2.8K citations

Nursing, Internal Medicine, End-of-life Care +16

A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously III Hospitalized Patients

Alfred F. Connors · JAMA · 1995 · 2.3K citations

Health Professions, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care +11

Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognoses in terminally ill patients: prospective cohort study Commentary: Why do doctors overestimate? Commentary: Prognoses should be based on proved indices not intuition

Nicholas A. Christakis · BMJ · 2000 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Nursing, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care +13

An Evaluation of Outcome from Intensive Care in Major Medical Centers

William A. Knaus · Annals of Internal Medicine · 1986 · 1.2K citations

Medicine, Health Administration, Critical Care Medicine +13

Withholding and Withdrawal of Life Support from the Critically Ill

Nicholas G. Smedira, Bradley H. Evans, Linda S. Grais et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1990 · 619 citations · Full text

Nursing, Surgery, Critical Care Medicine +14