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POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak with the severely ill and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis. [1]
The MOLST Program is a New York State initiative that facilitates end-of-life medical decision-making. One goal of the MOLST Program is to ensure that decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment are made in accordance with the patient's wishes, or, if the patient's wishes are not reasonably known and cannot with reasonable diligence be ascertained, in accordance with the ...
Karen Ann Quinlan (March 29, 1954 – June 11, 1985) was an American woman who became an important figure in the history of the right to die controversy in the United States.
An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity.
In 1967, the College of Pharmacy became a unit of the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center. In 2000 a fourth College, the College of Allied Health Sciences joined the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. On June 6, 2007, the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Pharmacy changed its name to the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy.
Life-Sustaining Treatment: Making Decisions and Appointing a Health Care Agent (1987) When Others Must Choose: Deciding for Patients Without Capacity (1992) When Death is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context (1994) Recommendation Regarding the Extension of the Family Health Care Decisions Act to Include Hospice (2010)
Life support comprises the treatments and techniques performed in an emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs. Healthcare providers and emergency medical technicians are generally certified to perform basic and advanced life support procedures; however, basic life support is sometimes provided at the scene of an emergency by family members or bystanders ...
The hospital has more than 670 registered beds [1] and is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Health. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] throughout southern Ohio and northern Kentucky , as well as patients from around the United States and the ...