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Background Withdrawal of life-sustaining measures is a common event in the intensive care unit yet it involves a complex balance of medical, legal and ethical considerations. Very few healthcare providers have been specifically trained to withdraw life-sustaining measures, and no comprehensive guidelines exist to help ensure clinicians deliver the highest quality of care to patients and families....
To inform development of educational tools, we sought to identify initial ventilator settings and monitoring targets for 3 scenarios.A survey was e-mailed to Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists members with 2 reminders in March/April 2011.Total evaluable surveys were 363. More participants selected pressure as opposed to volume ventilation for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS; 77%)...
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