Search for dissertations about: "life - sustaining treatment"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words life - sustaining treatment.
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1. Postpone death? : Nurse-physician perspectives on life-sustaining treatment and ethics rounds
Abstract : The starting point of the present thesis is nurses’ reported experiences of disagreements with physicians for pushing life sustaining treatment too far. The overall aim was to describe and compare nurses’ and physicians’ perspectives on the boundaries for life-sustaining treatment and to evaluate whether ethics rounds could promote mutual understanding and stimulate ethical reflection. READ MORE
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2. Aspects of decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment in intensive care
Abstract : End-of-life decision-making is required when the patient no longer benefits from available treatment options and there is a need to redirect medical treatment goals from cure to palliative care. End-of-life decisions are multifaceted and complicated processes for intensive care physicians. READ MORE
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3. Forgoing life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units. Practice, attitudes and ethics
Abstract : Many deaths in intensive care units are preceded by decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment. Under what conditions are forgoing life-sustaining treatment considered appropiate, when is it optitional and when is it wrong? Relevant guidelines are essential to help medical decisionmakers, but they cannot be established only from medical knowledge. READ MORE
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4. Nursing care for patients on the edge of life : Nurses’ experiences of nursing care in intensive and nursing home related to questions of withholding or withdrawing curative treatment
Abstract : Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to deepen the understanding of nursing care for seriously ill patients on the edge of life in intensive care unit (ICU) and nursing home when questions were raised whether to withhold or withdraw curative treatment. Method: All studies were conducted in a qualitative frame of reference with interviews of nurses in two contexts in Norway; group interviews of 14 nurses in an ICU (study I, III), and individual interviews of 14 nurses in two nursing homes (study II, IV). READ MORE
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5. Everyday Life among Next of Kin of Haemodialysis Patients
Abstract : Everyday life can be complex when next of kin of haemodialysis patients are preoccupied with taking care of the patient and his/her health, which implies the difficulties and requirements needed. The general aim of this thesis was to explore and describe everyday life among next of kin of haemodialysis patients with focus on the life situation, health, time and professional support. READ MORE