Viewpoint discusses ethical implications of slow life support care strategy for patients with no recovery chance.
This Viewpoint discusses slow life support, a care strategy used when clinicians believe patient recovery is impossible but cannot negotiate full withdrawal of therapies, and provides ethical analysis and practical recommendations for such practices.
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Vollbrecht et al. (2026) studied this question.
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