The number of psychiatric patients requesting Euthanasia or Assisted Suicide (EAS)
continues to increase. The aims of this systematic review were to: 1) describe the available …

The research literature about 'brain death'is largely characterized by biomedical, bioethical
and legal writing. This has led to overlooking wider but no less pertinent social, historical …

Purpose Intensive care is a stressful environment in which team-family conflicts commonly
occur. If managed poorly, conflicts can have negative effects on all parties involved …

Importance There are currently no clinically relevant criteria to predict a futile up-front
pancreatectomy in patients with anatomically resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …

Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial
issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research. Fully revised and …

Questions about when to limit unhelpful treatments are often raised in general medicine but
are less commonly considered in psychiatry. Here we describe a survey of US psychiatrists …

Background The global population is aging, with the number of≥ 80-year-olds projected to
triple over the next 30 years. Rates of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are also …

Objective To evaluate the role of initial ETCO 2 value in prognostication of OHCA patients in
an Asian-Chinese cohort. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Emergency departments …

Background Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is associated with high mortality. Current
methods for predicting mortality post-arrest require data unavailable at the time of initial …

Purpose To summarize and compare qualitative studies which explored attitudes of patients,
families and healthcare providers towards medical futility. Materials and methods A …