• Soins · Dec 2015

    [The decision to withhold and withdraw active treatments, an ethical approach].

    • Christian Vanjak.
    • Centre hospitalier Simone-Veil, 14, rue de Saint-Prix, 95600 Eaubonne, France. Electronic address: christian.vanjak@ch-simoneveil.fr.
    • Soins. 2015 Dec 1 (801): 49-51.

    AbstractIntensive care medicine is confronted with situations of suffering and dependence experienced as the appropriation of the body or medical futility. In this context, withholding and withdrawing active intensive care must be given a framework. The ethical challenge is to decide to continue or not with care considered vain or futile. The "Leonetti Law", in particular, helps to clarify the situation for professionals and families.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

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