"Life Support Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life.
Descriptor ID |
D008020
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MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.440 N02.421.585.440
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Concept/Terms |
Life Support Care- Life Support Care
- Care, Life Support
- Prolongation of Life
- Life Prolongation
Extraordinary Treatment- Extraordinary Treatment
- Extraordinary Treatments
- Treatment, Extraordinary
- Treatments, Extraordinary
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2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2015 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Life Support Care" by people in Profiles.
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Rubin EB, Robinson EM, Cremens MC, McCoy TH, Courtwright AM. Declining to Provide or Continue Requested Life-Sustaining Treatment: Experience With a Hospital Resolving Conflict Policy. J Bioeth Inq. 2023 09; 20(3):457-466.
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Mack DS, Dosa D. Improving Advanced Care Planning through Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Expansion across the United States: Lessons Learned from State-Based Developments. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2020 Jan; 37(1):19-26.
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Rubin EB, Buehler AE, Cooney E, Gabler NB, Mante AA, Halpern SD. Intuitive vs Deliberative Approaches to Making Decisions About Life Support: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 01 04; 2(1):e187851.
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Fonseca L, Walkey AJ, Ma X, Hua M. Validation of the V49.86 Code for Do-Not-Resuscitate Status in Hospitalized Patients at a Single Academic Medical Center. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2018 10; 15(10):1234-1237.
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Walkey AJ, Weinberg J, Wiener RS, Cooke CR, Lindenauer PK. Hospital Variation in Utilization of Life-Sustaining Treatments among Patients with Do Not Resuscitate Orders. Health Serv Res. 2018 06; 53(3):1644-1661.
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Byhoff E, Harris JA, Langa KM, Iwashyna TJ. Racial and Ethnic Differences in End-of-Life Medicare Expenditures. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016 09; 64(9):1789-97.
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Kessler DO, Walsh B, Whitfill T, Dudas RA, Gangadharan S, Gawel M, Brown L, Auerbach M. Disparities in Adherence to Pediatric Sepsis Guidelines across a Spectrum of Emergency Departments: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Observational In Situ Simulation Study. J Emerg Med. 2016 Mar; 50(3):403-15.e1-3.
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Walkey AJ, Pencina KM, Knox D, Kuttler KG, D'Agostino RB, Benjamin EJ, Brown SM. Five-Year Risk of Mechanical Ventilation in Community-Dwelling Adults: The Framingham-Intermountain Anticipating Life Support Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 Oct; 63(10):2082-8.
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Lilly CM. ICU physician staffing: what else do we need to know? Chest. 2015 Apr; 147(4):867-868.
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Huang S, Vohora A, Russ MK, Mathew JK, Johnny CS, Stevens J, Fitzgerald MC. Delaying urinary catheter insertion in the reception and resuscitation of blunt multitrauma and using a full bladder to tamponade pelvic bleeding. Injury. 2015; 46(6):1081-3.