Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy: all systems are not yet "go"

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1995 Feb;151(2):279-81.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives
  • Attitude*
  • Communication
  • Critical Illness
  • Decision Making*
  • Euthanasia, Passive*
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Health Care Rationing
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Jurisprudence
  • Life Support Care*
  • Medical Futility
  • Mental Competency
  • Nutritional Support
  • Patients
  • Persistent Vegetative State
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Physicians*
  • Prognosis
  • Quality of Life
  • Resource Allocation
  • Right to Die
  • Societies
  • Terminally Ill
  • Treatment Refusal
  • United States
  • Ventilators, Mechanical
  • Withholding Treatment*