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How far do you go? Intensive care in a resource-poor setting
- Source :
- The New England journal of medicine. 367(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- A 12-year-old girl arrives unresponsive in a Port-au-Prince emergency department, with labored breathing and right hemiplegia. In one of the few functioning ICUs in Haiti, premature death is no longer automatic. But in such an environment, how far do you go to extend life?
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Critical Care
media_common.quotation_subject
Intensive care
medicine
Humans
Girl
Intensive care medicine
Child
Developing Countries
media_common
Resource poor
Labored breathing
business.industry
Palliative Care
Right hemiplegia
General Medicine
Emergency department
medicine.disease
Haiti
Death
Premature death
Health Resources
Female
Medical emergency
medicine.symptom
business
Medical Futility
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15334406
- Volume :
- 367
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The New England journal of medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f561b4065fefcd30d76654ee966ce605