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Advance Directives and Operating: Room for Improvement?
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Advance Directives and Operating: Room for Improvement?

Rachel A. Hadler, Mark D. Neuman, Steven Raper and Lee A. Fleisher
A & A CASE REPORTS, Vol.6(7), pp.204-207
04/01/2016
DOI: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000000269
PMCID: PMC4816672
PMID: 26599738

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Abstract

Anesthesiologists and surgeons are frequently called on to perform procedures on critically ill patients with advanced directives. We assessed the attitudes of attending and resident surgeons and anesthesiologists at our institution regarding their understanding of and practice around the application of consenting critically ill patients with advance directives in the operating room. To do so, we deployed a survey after interdepartmental grand rounds, featuring a panel discussion of ethically complex cases featuring end-of-life issues.
Anesthesiology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology

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