 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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| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Life Support Care" by people in Profiles.
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Olson SM, Newhams MM, Halasa NB, Price AM, Boom JA, Sahni LC, Pannaraj PS, Irby K, Walker TC, Schwartz SP, Maddux AB, Mack EH, Bradford TT, Schuster JE, Nofziger RA, Cameron MA, Chiotos K, Cullimore ML, Gertz SJ, Levy ER, Kong M, Cvijanovich NZ, Staat MA, Kamidani S, Chatani BM, Bhumbra SS, Bline KE, Gaspers MG, Hobbs CV, Heidemann SM, Maamari M, Flori HR, Hume JR, Zinter MS, Michelson KN, Zambrano LD, Campbell AP, Patel MM, Randolph AG. Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Vaccine against Critical Covid-19 in Adolescents. N Engl J Med. 2022 02 24; 386(8):713-723.
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Gerdes H, Lantos J. Differing Thresholds for Overriding Parental Refusals of Life-Sustaining Treatment. HEC Forum. 2020 Mar; 32(1):13-20.
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Lantos JD. Ethical Problems in Decision Making in the Neonatal ICU. N Engl J Med. 2018 11 08; 379(19):1851-1860.
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Miller KE, Coleman RD, Eisenberg L, Henriksen J, Lantos JD, Weiss EM. Unilateral Withdrawal of Life-sustaining Therapy in a Severely Impaired Child. Pediatrics. 2018 11; 142(5).
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Wo SR, Largent EA, Brosco J, Rosenberg AR, Goodman KW, Lantos JD. Should Foreigners Get Costly Lifesaving Treatments in the United States? Pediatrics. 2018 11; 142(5).
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Kutzsche S, Partridge JC, Leuthner SR, Lantos JD. When life-sustaining treatment is withdrawn and the patient doesn't die. Pediatrics. 2013 Nov; 132(5):893-7.
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Lantos J, Meadow W. Re: 'Decisions about life-sustaining measures in children: in whose best interests?'. Acta Paediatr. 2012 Apr; 101(4):337.
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Fajardo CA, Gonz?lez S, Zambosco G, Cancela MJ, Forero LV, Venegas M, Baquero H, Lemus-Varela L, Kattan J, Wormald F, Sola A, Lantos J. End of life, death and dying in neonatal intensive care units in Latin America. Acta Paediatr. 2012 Jun; 101(6):609-13.
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Janvier A, Okah F, Farlow B, Lantos JD. An infant with trisomy 18 and a ventricular septal defect. Pediatrics. 2011 Apr; 127(4):754-9.
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Colby WH, Dahlin C, Lantos J, Carney J, Christopher M. The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines Domain 8: ethical and legal aspects of care. HEC Forum. 2010 Jun; 22(2):117-31.
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