Therapeutic Innovations Related to Respiration
Overview
During the first half of the twentieth century, several great innovations designed to treat respiratory failure were developed. The emerging fie...
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Police have filed an investigation report with prosecutors on a
physician who is suspected of murdering an 88-year-old brain-dead
woman by allegedly removing her artificial respirator last ye...
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(EDS: ADDING DETAILS)
Police have filed an investigation report with prosecutors on a
physician who is suspected of killing an 88-year-old brain-dead woman
by removing her artificial respira...
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(EDS: MORE INFO IN 4TH-8TH, LAST 3 GRAFS)
The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine on Monday adopted a
guideline that sets conditions to allow physicians to remove
respirators from termin...
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An Italian judge rejected a paralyzed man's request to be removed from a respirator Saturday, ruling that the law does not permit the denial of lifesaving care and urging lawmakers to confront the ...
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Italian prosecutors on Tuesday cleared a physician who disconnected the respirator of a paralyzed man who had sought to die, in a victory for supporters of the right-to-die campaign in the Roman Ca...
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Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad underwent surgery to clean a wound infection following a recent bypass operation, a hospital statement said Sunday.Mahathir's son, Mukhriz, separat...
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An Italian medical board on Thursday cleared a physician who disconnected the respirator of a paralyzed man who had sought to die, in the latest development of a case that split Italy.Dr. Mario Ric...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
MACHO MISTAKES AT GROUND ZERO (The New York Times, New York)
As more and more workers who inhaled the dust at ground zero
fall ill, it ha...
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The ethics panel of a medical school in Tokyo has compiled an
interim guideline to consider withdrawing life support from
hopelessly sick or injured patients under certain conditions,
includ...
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A paralyzed man who touched off an intense debate on euthanasia in Italy has died just days after a court refused his request to let doctors remove his respirator, an official said Thursday.It was ...
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Therapeutic Innovations Related to Respiration
Doctor suspected of murder for removing respirator from woman
