Attaining Good End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units in Taiwan—The Dilemma And the Strategy

Abstract

One of the major challenges for intensivists is resolving the conflicting interests in end-of-life care. We reviewed patients' characteristics in an intensive care unit to determine the major barriers of practicing good end-of-life care and the medical ethics involved for the care team to resolve these conflicts.

Keywords

• double effect
• medical ethics
• medical futility
• uncertainty