Withholding and withdrawing life-support in adults in emergency care: joint position paper from the French Intensive Care Society and French Society of Emergency Medicine

Withholding and withdrawing life-support in adults in emergency care: joint position paper from the French Intensive Care Society and French Society of Emergency Medicine

Abstract For many patients, notably among elderly nursing home residents, no plans about end-of-life decisions and palliative care are made. Consequently, when these patients experience life-threatening events, decisions to withhold or withdraw life-support raise major challenges for emergency healt...

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Main Authors: Jean Reignier, Anne-Laure Feral-Pierssens, Thierry Boulain, Françoise Carpentier, Pierrick Le Borgne, Denis Del Nista, Gilles Potel, Sandrine Dray, Delphine Hugenschmitt, Alexandra Laurent, Agnès Ricard-Hibon, Thierry Vanderlinden, Tahar Chouihed, For the French Society of Emergency Medicine (Société Française de Médecine d’Urgence, SFMU) and French Intensive Care Society (Société de Réanimation de Langue Française, SRLF)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-09-01
Series:Annals of Intensive Care
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13613-019-0579-7

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