End-of-life decisions and respiratory disease

Nurs Times. 2006 Feb;102(7):56, 59, 61.

Abstract

Withdrawing treatment from a patient is a difficult decision. Samantha Prigmore uses an ethical framework to explore how complex clinical dilemmas can be addressed. She also provides a brief introduction to ethics and ethical principles.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Decision Making / ethics*
  • Ethical Theory
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Medical Futility
  • Nurse's Role / psychology
  • Patient Advocacy / ethics
  • Patient Advocacy / psychology
  • Patient Selection
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Principle-Based Ethics
  • Prognosis
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / psychology
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / therapy*
  • Respiration, Artificial* / ethics
  • Respiration, Artificial* / psychology
  • Terminal Care* / ethics
  • Terminal Care* / methods
  • Terminal Care* / psychology
  • Treatment Failure
  • Withholding Treatment* / ethics