Withdrawing life‐sustaining treatment from severely brain‐damaged persons
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- point of-view
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 154 (8) , 559-561
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb119456.x
Abstract
Ventilator support is commonly withdrawn from unconscious patients who cannot breathe when it is reasonably certain that their condition is permanent and further medical treatment is futile. However,...Keywords
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