 Life Support Care
"Life Support Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life.
| Descriptor ID |
D008020
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.440 N02.421.585.440
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| Concept/Terms |
Life Support Care- Life Support Care
- Care, Life Support
- Prolongation of Life
- Life Prolongation
Extraordinary Treatment- Extraordinary Treatment
- Extraordinary Treatments
- Treatment, Extraordinary
- Treatments, Extraordinary
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Life Support Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Life Support Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1988 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1989 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1993 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Life Support Care" by people in Profiles.
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Morris SA, Ghanayem NS. Patient With Poor Prognosis, Family Wishes to Pursue All Options, Care Team Cannot Reach Consensus. Ann Thorac Surg. 2019 11; 108(5):1284-1286.
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Kruser JM, Benjamin BT, Gordon EJ, Michelson KN, Wunderink RG, Holl JL, Schwarze ML. Patient and Family Engagement During Treatment Decisions in an ICU: A Discourse Analysis of the Electronic Health Record. Crit Care Med. 2019 06; 47(6):784-791.
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Lazaridis C. Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatments in Perceived Devastating Brain Injury: The Key Role of Uncertainty. Neurocrit Care. 2019 02; 30(1):33-41.
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Ross LF. Respecting Choice in Definitions of Death. Hastings Cent Rep. 2018 Nov; 48 Suppl 4:S53-S55.
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DeMartino ES, Wordingham SE, Stulak JM, Boilson BA, Fuechtmann KR, Singh N, Sulmasy DP, Pajaro OE, Mueller PS. Ethical Analysis of Withdrawing Total Artificial Heart Support. Mayo Clin Proc. 2017 05; 92(5):719-725.
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Laventhal N, Verhagen AAE, Hansen TWR, Dempsey E, Davis PG, Musante GA, Wiles A, Meadow W, Janvier A. International variations in application of the best-interest standard across the age spectrum. J Perinatol. 2017 02; 37(2):208-213.
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Chung GS, Yoon JD, Rasinski KA, Curlin FA. US Physicians' Opinions about Distinctions between Withdrawing and Withholding Life-Sustaining Treatment. J Relig Health. 2016 Oct; 55(5):1596-606.
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Sanghavi P, Jena AB, Newhouse JP, Zaslavsky AM. Is Prehospital Advanced Life Support Harmful? Ann Intern Med. 2016 07 05; 165(1):70-1.
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Ayeh DD, Tak HJ, Yoon JD, Curlin FA. U.S. Physicians' Opinions About Accommodating Religiously Based Requests for Continued Life-Sustaining Treatment. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2016 06; 51(6):971-8.
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Sanghavi P, Jena AB, Newhouse JP, Zaslavsky AM. Outcomes of Basic Versus Advanced Life Support for Out-of-Hospital Medical Emergencies. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Nov 03; 163(9):681-90.
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