The use of advance directives and do not resuscitate orders when considering the inactivation of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in terminal patients

Keyphrases

• Advance Directives 100%
• Do-not-resuscitate Orders 100%
• Terminally Ill Patients 100%
• Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator 100%
• Quality of Life 50%
• Patient Benefit 50%
• Palliative Care 50%
• Dialysis 50%
• Patient Quality 50%
• Medical Ethics 50%
• Clinically Indicated 50%
• Deactivation 50%
• Artificial Ventilation 50%
• Cardioverter-defibrillator 50%
• Operating State 50%
• Cardiac Devices 50%
• Patient Quality of Life 50%

Medicine and Dentistry

• Quality of Life 100%
• Advance Directive 100%
• Implantable Automatic Defibrillator 100%
• Symptomatic Treatment 50%
• Artificial Respiration 50%
• Defibrillator 50%

Nursing and Health Professions

• Defibrillator 50%