Publication date: Available online 13 November 2018
Source: Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
Author(s): Grant Lewis, Paul McConnell
Abstract
With continued advances in resuscitation and organ support, modern intensive care medicine is redefining life and death. Yet for all our progress, more life at any costs may not be an outcome that a patient wishes or finds tolerable. As medical paternalism is stripped away and the subjective wishes of the patient becomes the focus of our care, how we offer, deliver and discontinue therapies become paramount. When our patients themselves though may not be able to communicate their wishes as a result of both their pathology and our therapies in the intensive care unit, we are presented with ethical, moral and practical dilemmas as to how we may best care for them and act in their best interests.
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