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Abstract: Because of critically ill and deep sedation, ICU patients could not express their end-of-life decisions, especially when facing emergency condition. In this paper, We elaborated the current status of end-of-life decisions in ICU,explored the influencing effect of family meetings on end-of-life decision for the critically ill patients. We found proactive and well prepared family meetings could facilitate the final decision-making of critical patients. However, we still lack effective method about how to comply with the wishes of the critically ill patients and their families in end-of-life decisions, and face the challenges in ICU.
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URL: http://www.zghlgl.com/EN/10.3969/j.issn.1672-1756.2017.02.030
http://www.zghlgl.com/EN/Y2017/V17/I2/271
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