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Hydration and nutrition at the end of life: a systematic review of emotional impact, perceptions, and decision-making among patients, family, and health ca... BackgroundDecrease in oral intake, weight loss, and muscular weakness in the last phases of a terminal illness, particularly in the con...
Therefore, in the opening statement of the questionnaire, the EoL situation was defined by a common physical phenomenon ("no longer able to eat or drink by themselves") rather than by a time frame. Regarding the point on artificial hydration (AH) in the last days of life, AH may ...
The aim of this study was to assess attitudes of intensive care nurses to selected ethical issues related to end-of-life decisions in paediatric intensive ... A Akpinar,MO Senses,R Aydin Er - 《Nursing Ethics》 被引量: 32发表: 2009年 Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Clinical Issues Artifi...
Most people who die in ICUs do so after withholding life-sustaining treatment or WLST. WLST in the neuro-ICU can include mechanical ventilation, artificial nutrition and hydration, vasopressor support, hemodialysis, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and sometimes antibiotics and other medication...
nutrition support to this patient population to provide comfort and reduce suffering is not science based. Some studies of patients who are dying have indicated that thirst and hunger are not a significant problem when patients decide to forgo nutrition support and hydration.6,7 A study of nurses...
Any decision relating to clinically assisted nutrition and/or hydration in a frail older person who is considered to be nearing the end of their life must also include explicit consideration of the needs of that individual for formalised palliative care. 展开 关键词:...
Part III Ethical Challenges in End of Life Care 20 Access to Care 21 Prognosis 23 Pain Management 24 Withholding and Withdrawing Medical Treatment 25 (Resuscitation, Ventilation, Nutrition and Hydration, Kidney Dialysis and Antibiotic Treatments) Medical Futility 31 Terminal Sedation 33 Advance Directiv...
Background: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent represents a great challenge to healthcare staff's protection of patient autonomy in the issues of life-prolonging treatment, hydration, nutrition and hospitalisation. The lack of national guide...
[5, 6] consisting of sedative and analgesic treat- ment leading to a profound and continuous change of vigilance to death if the patient is likely to suffer pain, associated with the cessation of all life-sustaining treat- ments such as artificial nutrition and hydration; ii) mak- ing ...