Benefits of adding a physician-staffed ambulance to bystander-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a community-based, observational study in Niigata, Japan
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032967
Abstract: Objective This study aimed to assess the benefits of adding a physician-staffed ambulance to bystander-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using a community-based registry. Design Population-based, retrospective cohort study. Setting An urban city with approximately 800 000 residents.… read more here.
Keywords: physician involvement; cardiac arrest; adding physician; hospital cardiac ... See more keywords
Advice and care for patients who die by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking is not assisted suicide
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DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0994-2
Abstract: BackgroundA competent patient has the right to refuse foods and fluids even if the patient will die. The exercise of this right, known as voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), is sometimes proposed as an… read more here.
Keywords: physician involvement; stopping eating; involvement vsed; assisted suicide ... See more keywords