Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: the necessity of discrepancies in ethical reasoning

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Critical Care
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Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: the necessity of discrepancies in ethical reasoning

Frédéric Pochard¹, Nancy Kentish-Barnes² and Elie Azoulay¹

¹Famirea Group, Service de Réanimation Médicale, AP-PH, Saint Louis Hospital, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, University Paris 7, 75010 Paris, France

²Famirea Group and LAPSAC, AP-HP, Saint Louis Hospital, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, University Paris 7, 75010 Paris, France

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Critical Care 2008, 12:418doi:10.1186/cc6873


Published:	29 April 2008

See related research by Rydvall and Lynöe, http://ccforum.com/content/12/1/R13

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Observations can be proposed regarding the study by Rydvall and Lynöe [1]. The use of standardised questionnaires in the general population measures the intention of the persons interviewed but not the reality of reasoning in a concrete clinical situation.