life-sustaining treatment

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meanings of treatment

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treatment
noun
uk /ˈtriːt.mənt/ us /ˈtriːt.mənt/
the way you deal with or behave towards someone ...
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Examples of life-sustaining treatment

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Withdrawing intensive life-sustainingtreatment: recommendations for compassionate clinical management.
Although the preferences of physicians and nurses divided almost equally between life-sustainingtreatment and comfort care, in every case the surrogate preferred to continue life-sustainingtreatment.
Impact of patient competence on decisions to use or withhold life-sustainingtreatment.
Approximately one third of dying patients received active life-sustainingtreatment at time of death.
Nor can withdrawing life-sustainingtreatment be defended as permissible on the ground that it does.
No place to go: refusal of life-sustainingtreatment by competent persons with physical disabilities.
But the courts give differing accounts of why withdrawing life-sustainingtreatment results in a natural death.
The decision to discontinue or not provide life-sustainingtreatment has been made by the appropriate proxy.
The consensus on forgoing life-sustainingtreatment is simply the extension of this doctrine to end-of-life treatments.
Forgoing life-sustainingtreatment is difficult for healthcare professionals, as well as for patients and their families.
The bioethical principles on the use of antibiotics as a life-sustainingtreatment should always be followed.
They found that of 1,039 hospitalized patients 91 (8.8%) had a decision to forego life-sustainingtreatment.
The assertion remains unsupported that most individuals do not care about or do not understand the implications of deciding in advance to refuse life-sustainingtreatment.
The hospital had just adopted a policy specifying that life-sustainingtreatment for permanent unconsciousness was futile and, therefore, not indicated.
Indeed, as long as lethal palliation is permitted, those distinctions cannot even place withdrawing life-sustainingtreatment and active euthanasia on different sides of the line.
Of course, this extension to life-sustainingtreatment needed to be affirmed and clarified because the state has an interest in preserving life.
Withdrawing life-sustainingtreatment is permitted because it results in a natural death; active euthanasia is forbidden because it does not.
In the typical case, a person refusing life-sustainingtreatment is hopelessly ill and suffering greatly, so is morally justified - in society's view - in choosing death.
This circumstance was often cited to reinforce the principle that decisions about life-sustainingtreatment ought usually to be made by patients or their surrogates.
Terminally or incurably ill patients standardly refuse life-sustainingtreatment, and doctors allow these patients to die, for the patient's good.
A quick glance at attitudes and practices surrounding forgoing life-sustainingtreatment reveals that the courts have certainly shaped our thinking.
The major change as compared to the previous guidelines was a clear statement that decisioncapable patients have a right to refrain from life-sustainingtreatment.
Merely making appeals to beneficence and autonomy, for instance, will not likely suffice to reverse the decision of parents to withhold potentially life-sustainingtreatment for their child.
Specifically, are these hospitals willing to accept the transfer of a permanently unconscious patient or others for whom another hospital has deemed further life-sustainingtreatment futile?
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