Family and Limitation of the Therapeutic Effort in Pediatric Intensive Care. Ethical Issues

• Main Authors: Ariel Efrén Uriarte Méndez (Author), Jesús Vila Díaz (Author), Yagén Pomares Pérez (Author), Andrés Prieto Apesteguía (Author), Jorge Luis Capote Padrón (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos, 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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The fact of improving the quality of life of patients with incurable diseases and prolonging life in extremely serious cases has been related to the problem of defining when it is not ethically correct to prolong the agony. Almost all the medical literature addressing this issue refers to the patien...