| Title |
Ethics review: Dark angels – the problem of death in intensive care
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Critical Care, January 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/cc5138 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David W Crippen, Leslie M Whetstine |
| Abstract |
Critical care medicine has expanded the envelope of debilitating disease through the application of an aggressive and invasive care plan, part of which is designed to identify and reverse organ dysfunction before it proceeds to organ failure. For a select patient population, this care plan has been remarkably successful. But because patient selection is very broad, critical care sometimes yields amalgams of life in death: the state of being unable to participate in human life, unable to die, at least in the traditional sense. This work examines the emerging paradox of somatic versus brain death and why it matters to medical science. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 5% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 34 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 7 | 19% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 16% |
| Researcher | 4 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 32% |
| Unknown | 2 | 5% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 29 | 78% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 2 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 3% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 3% |
| Chemistry | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 2 | 5% |
Attention Score in Context
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#6,929,769
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Outputs from Critical Care
#3,867
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#38,167
of 173,045 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Critical Care
#11
of 29 outputs
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