title: [Ethical decision-making on limitations and needs in terminal care].
abstract: Many physicians are refusing euthanasia as a possible solution of a patient's excessive distress, being aware of their responsibility for decision-making in the terminal care. A sharp dividing line has to be drawn between accepting inevitable death and unjustifiable manipulations with human life based on arbitrary qualitative criteria. Ethical decision-making should proceed from the particular clinical situation, which influences the definition of ordinary and extraordinary therapeutic means. Contemporary medicine has progressed towards authentic terminal care, respecting the fundamental needs of the terminally ill patient, in all dimensions of human person.
authors.affiliation: IV. interní klinika 1. LF UK, Praha.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Slabý
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D006801:Humans; D013727:Terminal Care
vernacular_title: Etické rozhodováni o hranicich a náplni terminální péce.