POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak...
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MOLST is an acronym for Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment. The MOLST Program is an initiative to facilitate end-of-life medical decision-making...
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Do not resuscitate (redirect from Resuscitation orders)
Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST), Physician's Orders on Scope of Treatment (POST) or Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences...
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"Abbreviation List for Medical Record Documentation V20" (PDF). Madison Memorial Hospital. "Title Change". Hanley, Sharita. "PERRLA Eye Assessment: What...
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medical treatment, they must keep the patient or representatives informed even if they discourage continued life support. Whether the physician decides...
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Compassionate Care of California. Retrieved 27 February 2016. "Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment". California Health Care Foundation. Retrieved 27 February...
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Dying (category Human life stages)
case when the patient has an advanced directive, a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form indicating that resuscitation is not desired...
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Terminal illness (redirect from Life-limiting illness)
options for disease management after diagnosis. Examples include caregiving, continued treatment, palliative and hospice care, and physician-assisted...
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POLST (Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment) form. These medical treatment preference documents are critical, especially for the elderly, for whom...
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Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine, under the title "Deciding to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment." The Commission sustained in its findings...
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had been developed internationally including Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) for those approaching the end of their lives. One...
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Advance healthcare directive (redirect from Advance directive for health care)
disease, or condition and my attending physician determines that my condition is terminal, I direct that life-sustaining measures that would serve only to...
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capacity had a broad right to choose to forgo life-sustaining treatment. Second, life-sustaining treatment could be withdrawn or withheld from an adult patient...
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of the pregnancy, a woman must remain on life sustaining treatment until she gives birth with no exception for patients who will be in prolonged severe...
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other 'life-sustaining' treatment from the body." On January 26 JPS issued the following statement: "The past eight weeks have been difficult for the Munoz...
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court orders; other countries defer directly to the medical opinions of doctors. Some countries have general legislation allowing for any treatment deemed...
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sustaining life, but allowed terminally ill patients to refuse life-prolonging treatment in situations in which a physician believes the treatment's harm...
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their next of kin) request it. Doctors can stop giving a patient life-sustaining treatments, such as ventilators and feeding tubes, after being sedated, thus...
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Typhoid fever (section Treatment)
ice baths and cold compresses as a means of treatment for his fever. There is a statue of the Greek physician, Antonius Musa, who treated his fever. The...
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are examples of complementary treatments. About half the practitioners who dispense complementary treatments are physicians, although they tend to be generalists...
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Woodruff, William A. "Letting Life Run Its Course: Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment". Scholarly Works: 7 – via Scholarly...
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Choice & Safety (2005) Do Not Resuscitate Orders (1986) The Determination of Death (1986) Life-Sustaining Treatment: Making Decisions and Appointing a Health...
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to ever receive treatment. At that time, it was believed that the effects of syphilis depended on the race of those affected. Physicians believed that syphilis...
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House physician, released limited statements about Trump's injury and treatment on July 20 and 26; however, neither Trump's attending physician nor physicians...
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Aegon's succession for years. Appalled by this, she orders Larys to dismantle Mysaria's spy network which Otto had been using for his advantage. When...
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Tom Wolf (section Early life and education)
not hinder his ability to work. After treatment, Wolf's spokesperson announced in January 2017 that Wolf's physician had given him a "clean bill of health"...
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Catholic Church and health care (section Physicians)
(1822–1884) developed theories on genetics for the first time. As Catholicism became a global religion, the Catholic orders and religious and lay people established...
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Peter F. Christensen (section Early life and education)
Wisconsin bishops in warning against the use of Physician (or Provider) Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST). The bishops wrote to “encourage all...
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the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum that is resistant to chloroquine when artesunate is not available. While sometimes used for nocturnal...
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someone to appoint a healthcare proxy. Although physicians are allowed to deliver life-saving treatment in emergent situations, in non-emergencies, it...
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