ReviewAnnals of intensive care2019
Withholding and withdrawing life-support in adults in emergency care: joint position paper from the French Intensive Care Society and French Society of Emergency Medicine.
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- Early decision effect of withholding and/or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment on emergency department patients' short- and long-term outcomes: a retrospective analysis.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Observational
- Timing matters: sex differences in treatment limitation decisions in intensive care.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Article
- Life-Supporting Treatment Limitations in Patients Who Die Within 48 Hours After ICU Admission: A French, Multicenter, Observational, Exploratory Study.Critical care explorations · 2025Observational
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- Limitation of life-sustaining treatment and patient involvement in decision-making: a retrospective study of a Danish COVID-19 patient cohort.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2021Observational
- Admission criteria and management of critical care patients in a pandemic context: position of the Ethics Commission of the French Intensive Care Society, update of April 2021.Annals of intensive care · 2021Review
- Integrity at end of life in the intensive care unit: a qualitative study of nurses' views.Annals of intensive care · 2021Article
- Emergency department outcome of elderly patients assisted by professional home services, the EPIGER study.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- Management of decision of withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments in French EDs.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2020Article
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14 authors at 10 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
For many patients, notably among elderly nursing home residents, no plans about end-of-life decisions and palliative care are made. Consequently, when these patients experience life-threatening events, decisions to withhold or withdraw life-support raise major challenges for emergency healthcare professionals. Emergency department premises are not designed for providing the psychological and technical components of end-of-life care. The continuous inflow of large numbers of patients leaves little time for detailed assessments, and emergency department staff often lack training in end-of-life issues. For prehospital medical teams (in France, the physician-staffed mobile emergency and intensive care units known as SMURs), implementing treatment withholding and withdrawal decisions that may have been made before the acute event is not the main focus. The challenge lies in circumventing the apparent contradiction between the need to make immediate decisions and the requirement to set up a complex treatment project that may lead to treatment withholding and/or withdrawal. Laws and recommendations are of little assistance for making treatment withholding and withdrawal decisions in the emergency setting. The French Intensive Care Society (Société de Réanimation de Langue Française, SRLF) and French Society of Emergency Medicine (Société Française de Médecine d'Urgence, SFMU) tasked a panel of emergency physicians and intensivists with developing a document to serve both as a position paper on life-support withholding and withdrawal in the emergency setting and as a guide for professionals providing emergency care. The task force based its work on the available legislation and recommendations and on a review of published studies.
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