Capacitating relatives of incapacitated patients

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Peri-operative Medicine, Bicêtre Hospital, University Paris-Saclay, Paris (AB, JD), EA4360 APEMAC Université de Lorraine (AB, MS, FC), Plateforme d'Aide à la Recherche Clinique (PARC) CHRU de Nancy - Hôpitaux de Brabois, Nancy, France (FC).

Antoine Baumann et al. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2021.

. 2021 Feb 1;38(2):103-105.

doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001291.

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Peri-operative Medicine, Bicêtre Hospital, University Paris-Saclay, Paris (AB, JD), EA4360 APEMAC Université de Lorraine (AB, MS, FC), Plateforme d'Aide à la Recherche Clinique (PARC) CHRU de Nancy - Hôpitaux de Brabois, Nancy, France (FC).

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Paediatric and neonatal intensive care units provide model of shared decision-making for incapacitated patients.
Philbin D, Crowe S. Philbin D, et al. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2022 Mar 1;39(3):279. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001506. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2022. PMID: 35115454 No abstract available.

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