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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 3/2016

01-03-2016 | What's New in Intensive Care

How should clinicians respond to requests for potentially inappropriate treatment?

Authors: Gabriel T. Bosslet, Jozef Kesecioglu, Douglas B. White

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 3/2016

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One of the most ethically controversial issues in intensive care units (ICUs) is how to respond to requests from surrogates to administer life-prolonging interventions when clinicians believe those interventions should not be administered. This article will outline the framework provided by a new multi-society consensus statement regarding such requests. …
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The examples within this manuscript are offered as tangible illustrations of the categories, and the scenarios have been chosen as a “best fit” for the concepts. Because of the variability between countries and jurisdictions regarding how these disputes are handled, (especially for potentially inappropriate and legally proscribed/discretionary treatments) the examples will likely be widely, although not necessarily universally, accurate.
 
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Metadata
Title
How should clinicians respond to requests for potentially inappropriate treatment?
Authors
Gabriel T. Bosslet
Jozef Kesecioglu
Douglas B. White
Publication date
01-03-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-4192-4

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