Life-support technology and the dying experience: implications for critical-care nursing practice.
The purpose of this article was to explore the historical, social, and philosophical factors related to life-support technology and its effects on patients dying in an intensive care unit environment. The article examines how technology has affected the right of individuals to experience a peaceful death. Implications for nursing practice in critical care are also addressed.
Browning
Annette M
AM
Biola University in La Mirada, California 90639, USA. Annette.browning@biola.edu
D016223:Advance Directives; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D003422:Critical Care; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D010166:Palliative Care; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D016414:Resuscitation Orders; D012297:Right to Die