Withdrawal of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients With Capacity

• Published in: Journal of pain and symptom management Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 387 - 394
• Main Authors: Carey, Matthew R., Tong, Wendy, Godfrey, Sarah, Takeda, Koji, Nakagawa, Shunichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.03.2022; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Agreements; capacity; Chart reviews; Death; Decision making; Desire; End of life decisions; end-of-life; Ethics; Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; Humans; Insight; mechanical circulatory support; Multidisciplinary teams; Palliative Care; Patients; Psychiatry; Quality of Life; Retrospective Studies; Withdrawal of life support; STVAD; decision-making; Withdrawal of life support; mechanical circulatory support; end-of-life; OHT; ICU; MCS; palliative care; LVAD; VA-ECMO; capacity

Little is known about the real-time decision-making process of patients with capacity to choose withdrawal of temporary mechanical circulatory support (MCS). To assess how withdrawal of temporary MCS occurs when patients possess the capacity to make this decision themselves. This retrospective case...