Mechanical Medical Devices in Intensive Care and End-of-life: Unanswered Questions
End-of-life can be at different locations. Intensive care admission and progression to the terminal stage is one of these locations. The condition progresses to an unfortunate state where finally it is decided to initiate comfort care, terminal extubation, or change the status to no further therapy....
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| description | End-of-life can be at different locations. Intensive care admission and progression to the terminal stage is one of these locations. The condition progresses to an unfortunate state where finally it is decided to initiate comfort care, terminal extubation, or change the status to no further therapy. Modern advancements in health care include the application of an extensive list of medical devices to continue functional life in an outpatient setting or support critical care conditions. Both of these situations can have periods where medical device function makes critical decisions difficult. Patients, families, and sometimes healthcare providers discuss and do their best what has to be done to deal with these devices as the end-of-life approaches. Here we bring up some questions, not clearly defined in medical practice and suggest some options. As medical care gets more complex, there will be newer editions to these devices and further questions will arise. To make the point more clear, the below-mentioned case may help with the questions to follow. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e2418aefb0b1412499afe083a59e25092025-08-20T02:36:49ZengJaypee Brothers Medical PublisherJournal of Medical Academics2581-82792023-02-0151--2343610.5005/jp-journals-11003-011110Mechanical Medical Devices in Intensive Care and End-of-life: Unanswered QuestionsTariq Janjua0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5852-0090Masood Kisana1Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4180-6962Department of Critical Care, Physicians Regional Medical Center, Naples, Florida, United StatesDepartment of Palliative Care Medicine, Carl T. Hayden Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, United StatesLuis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, Colombian Clinical Research Group in Neurocritical Care, Bogota, Colombia, Phone: +5700573385978End-of-life can be at different locations. Intensive care admission and progression to the terminal stage is one of these locations. The condition progresses to an unfortunate state where finally it is decided to initiate comfort care, terminal extubation, or change the status to no further therapy. Modern advancements in health care include the application of an extensive list of medical devices to continue functional life in an outpatient setting or support critical care conditions. Both of these situations can have periods where medical device function makes critical decisions difficult. Patients, families, and sometimes healthcare providers discuss and do their best what has to be done to deal with these devices as the end-of-life approaches. Here we bring up some questions, not clearly defined in medical practice and suggest some options. As medical care gets more complex, there will be newer editions to these devices and further questions will arise. To make the point more clear, the below-mentioned case may help with the questions to follow.https://www.jmaacms.com/doi/JOMA/pdf/10.5005/jp-journals-11003-0111critical careethicsmedical device |
| spellingShingle | Tariq Janjua Masood Kisana Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar Mechanical Medical Devices in Intensive Care and End-of-life: Unanswered Questions Journal of Medical Academics critical care ethics medical device |
| title | Mechanical Medical Devices in Intensive Care and End-of-life: Unanswered Questions |
| title_full | Mechanical Medical Devices in Intensive Care and End-of-life: Unanswered Questions |
| title_fullStr | Mechanical Medical Devices in Intensive Care and End-of-life: Unanswered Questions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mechanical Medical Devices in Intensive Care and End-of-life: Unanswered Questions |
| title_short | Mechanical Medical Devices in Intensive Care and End-of-life: Unanswered Questions |
| title_sort | mechanical medical devices in intensive care and end of life unanswered questions |
| topic | critical care ethics medical device |
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