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What to do when a competent ICU patient does not want to live anymore but is dependent on life-sustaining treatment? Experience from The Netherlands

If patients on the intensive care unit (ICU) are awake and life-sustaining treatment is suspended because of the patients’ request,…

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‘I just have admitted an interesting sepsis’. Do we dehumanize our patients?

‘I just have admitted an interesting sepsis’; ‘Do you have the lactate of that oesophagectomy on ICU-2?’; ‘I asked the…

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Guidelines for Family-Centered Care in the Neonatal, Pediatric, and Adult ICU

Objective:  To provide clinicians with evidence-based strategies to optimize the support of the family of critically ill patients in the…

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Medical research in emergency research in the European Union member states: tensions between theory and practice

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Palliatieve zorg en palliatieve sedatie

Palliatieve zorg is zorg voor mensen die niet meer beter worden. Het doel is het voorkomen en verlichten van lijden…

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Bench-to-bedside review: An approach to
hemodynamic monitoring – Guyton at the bedside

Hemodynamic monitoring is used to identify deviations from hemodynamic goals and to assess responses to therapy. To accomplish these goals…

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Volume and its relationship to cardiac output and venous return

Volume infusions are one of the commonest clinical interventions in critically ill patients yet the relationship of volume to cardiac…

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Will This Hemodynamically Unstable Patient Respond to a Bolus of Intravenous Fluids?

Importance  Fluid overload occurring as a consequence of overly aggressive fluid resuscitation may adversely affect outcome in hemodynamically unstable critically ill…

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Passive leg raising: five rules, not a drop of fluid!

In acute circulatory failure, passive leg raising (PLR) is a test that predicts whether cardiac output will increase with volume…

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Circulatory Shock

Shock is the clinical expression of circulatory failure that results in inadequate cellular oxygen utilization. Shock is a common condition…

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