encarnizamiento terapéutico
English translation: futile life support
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| Spanish to English translations [PRO] Medical - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / ETHICS | |||||||
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| 4 +3 | therapeutic prolongation of life |
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| 4 +1 | futile life support |
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| 5 | Inhumane life saving measures |
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| 4 | therapeutic cruelty |
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| 4 | therapeutic obsession? |
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| 4 | Therapeutic cruelty |
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| 4 | overzealous treatment |
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therapeutic cruelty Explanation: I believe |
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16 mins confidence:
therapeutic obsession? Explanation: A suggestion. Cf., Oxford Thesaurus |
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22 mins confidence:
Therapeutic cruelty Explanation: An ethic problem for intensive care and for all medicine in general, is the useless stay, or the stay at intensive care units that do not generate any quantity or quality benefit, provoke ethic, social and economic reflections and disquisitions. The number of useless admissions is low, but even so it presents a high percentage of the total stays, 0.33. The advocates of intensive care, following n "irrational humanity", often decide to adopt a paternalist attitude towards the patient or the family. 34-36 By offering false possibilities, or even by letting ourselves drift away passively, the only thing that we really attain it to provoke a therapeutic cruelty, with the consequent social and economic expenditure. The hospital policies should allow a model fomenting from an interdisciplinary point of view the adoption of interruption of therapeutic steps. Simultaneously, behavioural guidelines should be prepared to give information to the doctors and to the relatives of the patients, explaining the principles that determine the acceptance or not of the admission. |
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25 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1futile life support Explanation: In Spanish, the term is consistently applied to situations in which a patient is terminally ill, and is artificially kept alive indefinitely, e.g., coma patients. FAMILIES WHO DEMAND INAPPROPRIATE MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR MORIBUND ... ... However, we are beginning to see a trend of family surrogates increasingly demanding moribund patients be kept on futile life support after prevailing medical ... http://ccm-l.med.edu/futility1/crippen/inapp.html More Results From: ccm-l.med.edu Withdrawing Life Support from..., Annals 15 Oct 96 ... and other life-support measures might temporarily reverse the physiologic abnormalities in patients who fulfill the study predictors and are thus not futile in ... http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15oct96/lifesupp.ht... More Results From: www.acponline.org The futile-care revolution ... In the 26 futile-care policies reviewed by the Cambridge Quarterly, treatment of patients who have a permanent dependence on life support only available in the ... http://www.euthanasia.com/futile.html More Results From: www.euthanasia.com -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-07-02 23:10:22 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- premsa19 ... según Josep Maria Simon, presidente de Metges Cristians de Catalunya, \"porque la mayoría no sabe distinguir entre eutanasia y encarnizamiento terapéutico; ... http://www.xtec.es/~jmeya1/premsa19.htm [Más resultados de www.xtec.es] Eutanasia: Planteos para la reflexión ... Algunos critican duramente \"el encarnizamiento terapéutico\", que más allá de preservar la vida parece obstaculizar el natural e inevitable proceso de la ... http://www.latinsalud.com/Temas/eutanasia.htm [Más resultados de www.latinsalud.com] Revista ARBIL, nº 40 Los términos de la eutanasia ... Esto se denomina también \"encarnizamiento terapéutico\" y es una práctica contraria a la ética médica pero también se opone a la moral cristiana, de ello ... http://www.ctv.es/USERS/mmori/(40)feli.htm PONTIFICIA ACADEMIA PRO VITA ... En este momento, el respeto hacia la persona que muere exige el deber de evitar todo “encarnizamiento terapéutico” y el deber de prestar ayuda para una ... http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdli... [Más resultados de www.vatican.va] |
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28 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3
peer agreement (net): +3therapeutic prolongation of life Explanation: From the references I have read, this has specific meaning to the needless prolongation of a patient's life, when there is no chance for survival or a life with dignity. There is no standard term that I am aware of, except for general terms (as listed above) which cover a larger range of meaning. I hope this helps in some degree. |
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