• Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Jan 2015

    [Ethical challenge in palliative support of intensive care patients].

    • Fred Salomon.
    • Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2015 Jan 1;50(1):48-54.

    AbstractIntensive care medicine and palliative care medicine were considered for a long time to be contrasting concepts in therapy. While intensive care medicine is directed towards prolonging life and tries to stabilize disordered body functions, palliative care medicine is focused upon the relief of disturbances to help patients in the face of death. Today both views have become congruent. Palliative aspects are equally important in curative therapy. In the course of illness or in respect of the patient's will, the aim of therapy may change from curative to palliative. Two examples are presented to illustrate the ethical challenges in this process. They follow from the medical indication, attention to the patient's will, different opinions in the team, truth at the bedside and from what must be done in the process of withdrawing therapy.© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York.

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