Erschienen in:
01.04.2008 | End of Life: National Legislations
Recommendations on therapy limitation and therapy discontinuation in intensive care units: Consensus Paper of the Austrian Associations of Intensive Care Medicine
verfasst von:
Andreas Valentin, Wilfred Druml, Heinz Steltzer, Christian J. Wiedermann
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 4/2008
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Excerpt
The practice of intensive medical care takes place for the most part in borderline situations in which what is medically “doable” must be weighed against the real benefits to a patient. There is general consensus that the task and aim of intensive care medicine is to sustain life and not to prolong death. Beyond that, however, in view of advances in intensive care medicine and also developments in other areas of medicine, the question arises of whether, in a concrete hopeless situation, it is justified to limit or discontinue treatment. …