Title Guidelines on the termination of life-sustaining treatment and the care of the dying : a report / by the Hastings Center.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	174.24 G946G2	Check Shelf

Description	xii, 159 pages ; 28 cm
Series	Medical ethics series
	Medical ethics series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-151) and index.
Contents	Pt. 1. Making treatment decisions : guidelines on the decisionmaking process -- pt. 2. Specific treatment modalities. Guidelines on long-term life-supporting technology : ventilators and dialysis -- Guidelines on emergency interventions : cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and treatment for life-threatening bleeding -- Guidelines on medical procedures for supplying nutrition and hydration -- Guidelines on antibiotics and other life-sustaining medication -- Guidelines on palliative care and the relief of pain -- pt. 3. Prospective planning : guidelines on advance directives -- pt. 4. Declaring death : guidelines on the declaration of death -- pt. 5. Policy considerations. Guidelines on ethics committees -- Guidelines on institutional policies for patient admissions and transfers -- The use of economic considerations in decisions concerning life-sustaining treatments.
Subject	Terminal care -- Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Life support systems (Critical care) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Ethics, Medical. (DNLM)D004992
	Life Support Care -- standards. (DNLM)D008020Q000592
	Terminal Care -- standards. (DNLM)D013727Q000592
	Ethics, medical.
	Life support care -- Standards.
	Terminal care -- Standards.
	Ethics, Medical.
	Euthanasia, Passive.
	44.02 philosophy and ethics of medicine. (NL-LeOCL)077596218
	Life support systems (Critical care) -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst00998383
	Terminal care -- Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst01147839
	Medische ethiek.
	Terminale patiënten.
Genre/Form	Rules (form) (NL-LeOCL)088144615
Added Author	Hastings Center.
Other Form:	Online version: Guidelines on the termination of life-sustaining treatment and the care of the dying. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. : The Center, ©1987 (OCoLC)568747010
	Online version: Guidelines on the termination of life-sustaining treatment and the care of the dying. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. : The Center, ©1987 (OCoLC)608476752
ISBN	0916558231 (paperback)
	9780916558239 (paperback)
	0253327431
	9780253327437

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