Finally, if the parents maintain their decision to continue life sustaining medical therapy and the health care team feels morally unable to provide it, then transfer to another institution or health care provider (with the family's and accepting institution's approval) may be sought.
And nobody talked to him after Miracle was born about continuing life-sustaining treatment.
There are many cases where continuing life-sustaining interventions may be considered to be an inappropriate overuse of medical resources; however, aggressive interventions may be needed to give patients time to recover, especially in patients receiving thrombolytics.
Continuing life-sustaining treatments without clinical improvement causes suffering to patients and deprives them and their families of palliative care, deprives them and their families of honest prognostic information, and reduces patients' time to prepare for dying and their families' time to prepare for bereavement [ 4, 6].
He resuscitates every premature baby who is born alive, he says, no matter how early, and he continues life-sustaining measures until he is convinced that nothing can keep the baby alive.
It means that there is no evidence to support a substituted judgement decision favouring continued life-sustaining treatment.
In the majority of these cases, there was an explicit or inferred decision to continue life-sustaining treatment.
For example, if the decision maker presents a threshold probability greater than ≈92%, the optimal decision would be to continue life-sustaining treatment even if it is deemed not to be effective.
A reliable early neurologic prognosis can help families make decisions about continuing life-sustaining care, but also to adjust expectations.
As Ashley continues refusing life sustaining treatment, the team consider whether they should force him to have it.
In 23 % limitation of life sustaining therapy was decided.
