Futility of end-of-life and emergency surgery in extreme high-risk patients: anesthetists’ versus surgeons’ perspective

• Rosa Tesoro,
• Mélanie Suppan,
• Arnaud Dupuis,
• Monica Escher,
• Guy Haller

Affiliations

Rosa Tesoro

University Hospitals of Geneva, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Division of Anaesthesiology, Geneva, Switzerland; Corresponding author.

Mélanie Suppan

University Hospitals of Geneva, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Division of Anaesthesiology, Geneva, Switzerland

Arnaud Dupuis

University Hospitals of Geneva, Department of Visceral Surgery, Geneva, Switzerland

Monica Escher

University Hospitals of Geneva, Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Division of Palliative Care, Geneva, Switzerland

Guy Haller

University Hospitals of Geneva, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Division of Anaesthesiology, Geneva, Switzerland