Background The worldwide debate over the use of artificial nutrition and hydration remains
controversial although the scientific and medical facts are unequivocal. Artificial nutrition and …

End-of-life care in the intensive care unit (ICU) was identified as an objective in a series of
Task Forces developed by the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care …

Purpose To compare the attitudes of physicians towards withholding and withdrawing life-
sustaining treatments in intensive care units (ICUs) in low-middle-income Asian countries …

A basic knowledge of how judicial forums deal with the cases relating to medical negligence
is of absolute necessity for doctors. The need for such knowledge is more now than before in …

Background End-of-life decision-making in Intensive care Units (ICUs) is difficult. The main
problems encountered are the lack of a reliable prediction score for death and the fact that …

End-of-life care is an integral part of neurology practice, and neuropalliative medicine is an
emerging neurology subspeciality. This begins with serious illness communication as a …

Background Severe sepsis is a potentially deadly illness and always requires intensive care.
Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders remain a debated issue in critical care and limited data …

Background Antibiotics are often administered to terminally ill patients until death, and
antibiotic use contributes to the emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). We …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the subjective experience of life-
sustaining treatment care among nurses in intensive care units. Method: A phenomenology …

Background Japan has no official guidelines for do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders. Therefore,
we investigated the effect of DNR orders on physician decision making in relation to …