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Author(s) -
Craig French
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
critical care and resuscitation/acritical care and resuscitation :
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2652-9335
pISSN - 1441-2772
DOI - 10.51893/2020.4.e1
Subject(s) - medicine , project commissioning , work (physics) , publishing , engineering ethics , management , mechanical engineering , engineering , law , political science , economics
The transition of a patient’s care from active intensive care treatment to palliation is always sad and sometimes challenging. The decision is made when consensus of medical opinion is that ongoing life-sustaining therapies will not be effective — the acceptance of this medical decision is sought most often from a representative of the patient’s family.