Some patients were put on the pathway and treatment was withdrawn, only for them to make a recovery, albeit temporarily.
Under the Dayton agreement, NATO forces are to be withdrawn only after progress in reducing corruption and organized crime, including the elimination of illegal institutions, the creation of a democratic law enforcement system and judicial reform.
Of the eight patients for who life-sustaining cardiopulmonary support was withdrawn, only three died less than 2 hours after treatment withdrawal, four died more than 2 hours later, and one survived and was discharged from the ICU.
The practical result is that medical care is withdrawn only when no hospital in the entire country believes that continuing care is medically reasonable.
Among the 160 physicians that responded with "should not be withdrawn," only 3 physicians answered "usually, withdraw".
This is the view that treatment may be withdrawn only if it would be in the best interests of the infant to die.
The prevailing official view is that treatment may be withdrawn only if the burdens in an infant's future life outweigh the benefits.
Subsequently disease relapsed with malignant pleural effusion and pulmonary nodules and a mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor was administered which was withdrawn only at patient's deteriorating performance status.
One frequently encountered answer, at least as found in official guidelines, is that life support may be withdrawn only where the newborn's future is sufficiently dire that the burdens of treatment and of illness outweigh the benefits (American Academy of Pediatrics 1994; British Medical Association. 2007, 3; General Medical Council 2006; Tibballs 2007).
The prevailing view of the permissibility of withdrawal of life support (at least as expressed in written guidelines for decisions) is one that I have here labeled the Zero Line View treatment may be withdrawn only where an infant is predicted to have a life not worth living.
