Euthanasia
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Monday, November 23, 2009

End-of-life decisions in Dutch neonatal intensive care units.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To clarify the practice of end-of-life decision making in severely ill newborns. DESIGN: Retrospective descriptive study with face-to-face interviews. SETTING: The 10 neonatal intensive care units in the Netherlands from October 2005 to ... Read more...

Congenital infiltrative lipomas in a calf.

30 Aug 2009 The current report describes a case of congenital subcutaneous and intramuscular tumors of the neck and tail base in a 4-week-old female Angus-Charolais crossbred calf. Results of clinical and ultrasound examination are summarized. Biopsy and ... Read more...

Gastric B-cell lymphoma with Mott cell differentiation in a dog.

30 Aug 2009 A gastric lymphoid tumor with involvement of regional lymph nodes and spleen was diagnosed in an 8-year-old crossbreed male dog with a 6-month history of gastrointestinal disease. Despite surgical excision and palliative therapy (prednisolone and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Euthanasia'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Euthanasia: great heat, little light. 18 Oct 2009
• End-of-life decisions in Dutch neonatal intensive care units. 29 Sep 2009
• Euthanasia debate reignited. 19 Sep 2009
• Medical end-of-life practices under the euthanasia law in Belgium. 8 Sep 2009
• [We have sensible euthanasia legislation] 5 Sep 2009
• Congenital infiltrative lipomas in a calf. 30 Aug 2009
• Gastric B-cell lymphoma with Mott cell differentiation in a dog. 30 Aug 2009
• Moral judgements in nursing. 30 Jul 2009
• "Please don't let me be misunderstood". 30 Jul 2009
• End of life decisions and quality of care before death. 28 Jul 2009
• Euthanasia and other end of life decisions and care provided in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium. 28 Jul 2009
• [Euthanasia "by the book." The pitfalls of a legal regulation of patient living wills] 21 Jul 2009
• The relationship between palliative care and legalized euthanasia in Belgium. 29 Jun 2009
• Going to meet death: the art of dying in the early part of the twenty-first century. 29 Jun 2009
• Nursing and euthanasia: a review of argument-based ethics literature. 29 Jun 2009
• Understanding the key areas of clinical decision making at the end of life. 30 May 2009
• Euthanasia in Belgium five years after legalisation. 30 May 2009
• Euthanasia in endocrinology: the choices get more complex. 30 May 2009
• Euthanasia and free speech in Ireland. 25 May 2009
• [Euthanasia, options at the end of life and family doctors] 6 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Euthanasia'

Definition: The act or practice of killing or allowing death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. (from Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed)

Descriptor UI: D005065

Alternative terms: Euthanasia; Mercy Killing; Killing, Mercy; Killings, Mercy; Mercy Killings; Involuntary Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Involuntary;

Related Mesh Headings: Right to Die; Suicide, Assisted; Bioethical Issues;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence;

Tree Number: E02.760.905.199; I01.880.735.344.500; N02.421.585.905.199;

Technical Notes: HUMAN only; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL is available for animals; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE and EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE are also available