Discussion Physicians should be familiar with modern principles of end-of-life and palliative
care for patients with terminal illnesses. Many guidelines have been developed and …

Use language that the patient will understand, give information in small pieces. Do not
introduce CPR in mechanistic terms (eg,“starting the heart” or “putting on a breathing …

Abstract The Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment has been in effect since 2018
for end-of-life patients. However, only 20~ 25% of deaths of terminally ill patients comply …

Abstract End-of-life (EoL) decisions are an important part of intensive care activities and now
most registered deaths follow a decision to forgo life-sustaining treatments (DFLST). These …

Physicians are not ethically obligated to deliver care that, in their best professional
judgment, will not have a reasonable chance of benefiting their patients. When further …

The recognition of the ethical and legal appropriateness of withholding or withdrawing life-
sustaining medical treatment is now ingrained as an essential part of the medical decision …

Conversations with patients and families about the allow-natural-death (AND) order, along
with the standard do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order during end-of-life (EOL) decision-making …

Allowing physicians to write a do not resuscitate (DNR) or do not administer
cardiopulmonary resuscitation order after properly informing patients and their families that …

Historically, medicine has been warned,“first, do no harm.” In contemporary practice,
however, the emergency response has generally been to err on the side of action with …

While some deaths are worse than others, there is no such thing as a 'good death'since the
plausible desiderata of a 'good death'form an inconsistent set. Because death is of the …