Should We Provide Life-Sustaining Treatments to Patients with Permanent Loss of Cognitive Capacities?

Should We Provide Life-Sustaining Treatments to Patients with Permanent Loss of Cognitive Capacities?

A very troubling issue for health care systems today is that of life-sustaining treatment for patients who have permanently lost their cognitive capacities. These include patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS), or minimally conscious state (MCS), as well as a growing population of patients at...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ofra G. Golan, Esther-Less Marchus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rambam Health Care Campus 2012-07-01
Series:Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
Subjects:
demenia
ethics
life-sustaining treatment
minimally conscious state
persistent vegetative state
solidarity
Online Access:http://rmmj.org.il/Pages/ArticleHTM.aspx?manuId=177

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