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Care of patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments: an ICU nurse perspective
BackgroundIntensive care unit (ICU) nurses working in South Korea report experiencing uncertainty about how to care for patients undergoing...
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Predictors and outcomes of withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units in Singapore: a multicentre observational study
BackgroundClinical practice guidelines on limitation of life-sustaining treatments (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU), in the form of withholding...
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Hospital to Hospital Transfers of Cerebral Hemorrhage: Characteristics of Early Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
BackgroundLarge intracerebral hemorrhages (ICHs) are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Patient transfer to higher level centers is...
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Effects of life-sustaining treatment plans on healthcare expenditure and healthcare utilization
PurposeTo develop an ethical and cultural infrastructure for Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) plan, it is crucial to carefully analyze its impact and...
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Declining to Provide or Continue Requested Life-Sustaining Treatment: Experience With a Hospital Resolving Conflict Policy
In 2015, the major critical care societies issued guidelines outlining a procedural approach to resolving intractable conflict between healthcare...
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Association of perceived life satisfaction with attitudes toward life-sustaining treatment among the elderly in South Korea: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundAmidst rapid population aging, South Korea enacted the Well-dying Act, late among advanced countries, but public opinion on the act is not...
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Eleven-year retrospective study characterizing patients with severe brain damage and poor neurological prognosis -role of physicians’ attitude toward life-sustaining treatment
BackgroundSevere brain hemorrhage/infarction and cardiac arrest constitute the most critical situations leading to poor neurological prognosis....
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Limitation of life sustaining measures in neurocritical care: sex, timing, and advance directive
BackgroundThe limitation of life sustaining treatments (LLST) causes ethical dilemmas even in patients faced with poor prognosis, which applies to...
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Social Determinants of Health and Limitation of Life-Sustaining Therapy in Neurocritical Care: A CHoRUS Pilot Project
BackgroundSocial determinants of health (SDOH) have been linked to neurocritical care outcomes. We sought to examine the extent to which SDOH explain...
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Factors Associated with Early Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatments After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Subanalysis of a Randomized Trial of Prehospital Therapeutic Hypothermia
BackgroundThe objective of this study is to describe incidence and factors associated with early withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies based on...
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Limiting life-sustaining treatment for very old ICU patients: cultural challenges and diverse practices
BackgroundDecisions about life-sustaining therapy (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU) depend on predictions of survival as well as the expected...
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Characteristics and outcomes of patients with do-not-resuscitate and physician orders for life-sustaining treatment in a medical intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study
BackgroundIn the intensive care unit (ICU), we may encounter patients who have completed a Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) or a Physician Orders to Stop...
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The role of clinical phenotypes in decisions to limit life-sustaining treatment for very old patients in the ICU
BackgroundLimiting life-sustaining treatment (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU) by withholding or withdrawing interventional therapies is...
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Natural language processing and network analysis in patients withdrawing from life-sustaining treatments: a retrospective cohort study
BackgroundProviding palliative care to patients who withdraw from life-sustaining treatments is crucial; however, delays or the absence of such...
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Prevalence, reasons, and timing of decisions to withhold/withdraw life-sustaining therapy for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
BackgroundExtracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is rapidly becoming a common treatment strategy for patients with refractory cardiac...
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Unravelling complex choices: multi-stakeholder perceptions on dialysis withdrawal and end-of-life care in kidney disease
BackgroundFor patients on dialysis with poor quality of life and prognosis, dialysis withdrawal and subsequent transition to palliative care is...
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Limitation of life-sustaining therapies in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a descriptive epidemiological investigation from the COVID-ICU study
BackgroundLimitations of life-sustaining therapies (LST) practices are frequent and vary among intensive care units (ICUs). However, scarce data were...
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Occurrence and timing of withdrawal of life-sustaining measures in traumatic brain injury patients: a CENTER-TBI study
BackgroundIn patients with severe brain injury, withdrawal of life-sustaining measures (WLSM) is common in intensive care units (ICU). WLSM...
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Contribution of information about acute and geriatric characteristics to decisions about life-sustaining treatment for old patients in intensive care
BackgroundLife-sustaining treatment (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is withheld or withdrawn when there is no reasonable expectation of...
