Jason Phua, Gavin M. Joynt, Masaji Nishimura, Yiyun Deng et al.
IMPORTANCE: Little data exist on end-of-life care practices in intensive care units (ICUs) in Asia. OBJECTIVE: To describe physicians' attitudes toward withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in end-of-life care and to evaluate factors associated with observed attitudes. DESIGN, SET...
Jason Phua, Gavin M. Joynt, Masaji Nishimura, Yiyun Deng et al.
Purpose To compare the attitudes of physicians towards withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units (ICUs) in low-middle-income Asian countries and regions with those in high-income ones, and to explore differences in the role of families and surrogates, legal risks...
Ross Freebairn, Gavin M. Joynt, Jeffrey Lipman, Pieter Bothma
To evaluate the Springfusor infusion device for clinical use in an Intensive Care Unit and to compare the technique of intermittent bolus and constant infusion of muscle relaxants, we undertook a prospective double-blind randomized placebo-controlled study. Twenty critically ill ventilated patients ...