"Life Support Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life.
Descriptor ID |
D008020
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MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.440 N02.421.585.440
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Concept/Terms |
Life Support Care- Life Support Care
- Care, Life Support
- Prolongation of Life
- Life Prolongation
Extraordinary Treatment- Extraordinary Treatment
- Extraordinary Treatments
- Treatment, Extraordinary
- Treatments, Extraordinary
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2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Life Support Care" by people in Profiles.
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Limitations of life-sustaining therapies in South Africa. J Crit Care. 2024 Aug; 82:154797.
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Variations in end-of-life practices in intensive care units worldwide (Ethicus-2): a prospective observational study. Lancet Respir Med. 2021 10; 9(10):1101-1110.
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Neonatal Life Support: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations. Circulation. 2020 10 20; 142(16_suppl_1):S185-S221.
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The Durban World Congress Ethics Round Table Conference Report: II. Withholding or withdrawing of treatment in elderly patients admitted to the intensive care unit. J Crit Care. 2014 Dec; 29(6):896-901.
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The Durban World Congress Ethics Round Table Conference Report: I. Differences between withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments. J Crit Care. 2014 Dec; 29(6):890-5.
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Neonatal resuscitation: in pursuit of evidence gaps in knowledge. Resuscitation. 2012 May; 83(5):545-50.
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Position statement. Pre-hospital rapid sequence intubation. S Afr Med J. 2011 Mar 01; 101(3):163.