Continue with ICU care – she is a spiritual being
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This case study discusses a dispute between the healthcare team and the patient’s surrogate decision maker at a cancer centre. While the healthcare team deemed further care to be futile, the patient’s husband argued that they should continue to try to reverse his wife’s acute decline. This case study illustrates the inertia and moral distress that can result when there are differences between patients/surrogates and the healthcare team in their goals for intensive care. The issues of moral distress and an inability to make decisions were addressed by involving an ethics consultant, and by creating institutional mechanisms to address end-of-life issues at an earlier stage
2020 ◽
Vol 231
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pp. e177
2011 ◽
Vol 11
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pp. 43-44
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2020 ◽
Vol 35
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pp. 1405-1412
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2013 ◽
Vol 3
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pp. 235.2-235
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