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dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-17T11:23:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-17T11:23:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1989 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Pullicino, P. (1989). Life-sustaining treatment : ethical considerations. National Dialogue, Malta, 59-62. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/50587 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In my short talk this evening I would like to address the following three questions. It is medically or morally permissible in any circumstances, to discontinue life support? If yes, should the decision to discontinue life support be taken by the doctor, the relatives, the courts or some other group? Do we in Malta have the mechanism to solve such a dilemma should it arise? In many peoples' minds the term 'life-sustaining procedures' suggests the intensive care support of a critically ill individual, in particular by a ventilator. In fact it is much more than this, and almost any treatment of a patient by a doctor could be classified as a life-sustaining procedure. In the last century the range of life- sustaining interventions available to doctors has increased from the provision of little more than the basic needs of food and water to the presently available advanced treatment of intensive care cardiopulmonary support. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Ministry for Social Policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Critical care medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects | en_GB |
dc.subject | Life support systems (Critical care) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Persistent vegetative state -- Moral and ethical aspects | en_GB |
dc.title | Life-sustaining treatment : ethical considerations | en_GB |
dc.type | conferenceObject | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferencename | National Dialogue | en_GB |
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferenceplace | Malta, 7-9/07/1989 | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Pullicino, Patrick | - |
Appears in Collections: | Bioethics : responsibilities and norms for those involved in health care |
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