Death during life sustaining treatment must be considered a failure but can be acceptable if the treatment was proportional

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Thomas M Donaldson. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Jul.

. 2022 Jul;48(7):967-968.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06657-6. Epub 2022 Mar 1.

¹ School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. tmd28@doctors.org.uk.

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Beyond failure or success: reflections on the ethical justifications for time-limited trial of intensive care.
Cheung EH, Cheung JC, Yip YY. Cheung EH, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Jul;48(7):969-970. doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06752-8. Epub 2022 May 26. Intensive Care Med. 2022. PMID: 35618922 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
The moral problems with time-limited trials at the end-of-life, especially when clinicians and patients have different goals.
Donaldson TM. Donaldson TM. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Sep;48(9):1262-1263. doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06831-w. Epub 2022 Aug 1. Intensive Care Med. 2022. PMID: 35913639 No abstract available.

Time-limited trial of intensive care is more than merely life sustaining.
Cheung EH, Cheung JC, Yip YY. Cheung EH, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Apr;48(4):507-508. doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06644-x. Epub 2022 Feb 11. Intensive Care Med. 2022. PMID: 35146535 No abstract available.

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