Search for dissertations about: "sustaining treatment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the words sustaining treatment.

  2. 1. Postpone death? : Nurse-physician perspectives on life-sustaining treatment and ethics rounds

    Author : Mia Svantesson; Gerd Ahlström; Håkan Thorsén; Kjell Kallenberg; Rurik Löfmark; Peter Strang; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; Clinical ethics; Life-sustaining treatment; End-of-life decisions; Attitudes; Nurses; Physicians; Inter-professional relations; Ethics consultation; Ethics rounds; Surgery; Kirurgi; Surgery; Kirurgi;

    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

  4. 2. Forgoing life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units. Practice, attitudes and ethics

    Author : Gunilla Melltorp; Anestesiologi och intensivvård; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; decision making; attitudes; guidelines; Intensive care units; interview; life-sustaining treatment; surveys; valur premises; medical training; withdraw; General practice; withhold; Allmän medicinsk utövning; medicinsk utbildning;

    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

  5. 3. Aspects of decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment in intensive care

    Author : Alma Nordenskjöld Syrous; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; critical care; end-of-life decision-making; intensive care; life-sustaining treatment; withdraw; withhold;

    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

  6. 4. Distribution and Biogeochemical Cycling of Arsenic In Grey and Brown Sand Aquifers in the Bengal Delta Plains (India)

    Author : Devanita Ghosh; Joyanto Routh; Teresia Svensson; Punyasloke Bhadury; M. E. Donselaar; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Arsenic; aquifer; arsenite oxidation; aioA gene; Bengal delta plains; biogeochemical cycling biomarkers; DOC; SOC; Arsenik; akvifärer; arsenitoxiderande; aioA gene; Bengal delta plains; biogeokemiska omsättning; biomarkörer; DOC; SOC;

    Abstract : An elevated level of Arsenic (As) in aquifers from India and Bangladesh affecting the human health has been widely reported since the late 1980s. The thesis aim is to investigate the present status of As contamination and biogeochemical cycling with direct role of diverse indigenous bacterial communities in As cycling in the Bengal Delta Plain (BDP) aquifers in Nadia district, West Bengal (India). READ MORE

  7. 5. Sustaining the Usefulness of eHealth Research Software : Lessons Learned in Action Design Research

    Author : Mudassir Imran Mustafa; Jenny Eriksson Lundström; Jonas Sjöström; Owen Eriksson; Helena Grönqvist; Anders Hjalmarsson Jordanius; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; research software; eHealth; sustaining usefulness; action design research; academic research context; quality characteristics; design principles; fitness-utility; data export; technology adaptation; mobile adaptation; design science research; Information Systems; Informationssystem;

    Abstract : Research software is vital to advancement in the sciences, engineering, humanities, and all other fields. Scientific research is dependent on the quality of and accessibility to research software. READ MORE