What is it about?
Considerations and values that influences decision-making regarding mechanical ventilation in older patients (≥65-years-old) with severe to very severe COPD. Furthermore, it aims to elucidate how physicians involve their patient in decision-making process.
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Why is it important?
The different considerations involved in decisions regarding whether or not to initiate mechanical ventilation for patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are challenging for health professionals.
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To decide whether older patients with severe COPD should be treated with mechanical ventilation is both medically and ethically challenging for physicians. Writing this paper made the different considerations more clear and transparent.
Heidi Jerpseth
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This page is a summary of: Considerations and values in decision making regarding mechanical ventilation for older patients with severe to very severe COPD, Clinical Ethics, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1477750916657657.
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