WITHDRAWAL/WITHHOLDING OF LIFE-SUSTAINING THERAPIES: LIMITATION OF THERAPEUTIC EFFORT IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Withdrawal/Withholding of Life-Sustaining Therapies: Limitation of Therapeutic Effort in the Intensive Care Unit

Background/Objectives: The change in critically ill patients makes limitation of therapeutic effort (LTE) a widespread practice when therapeutic goals cannot be achieved.We aimed to describe the application of LTE in a post-surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU), analyze the measures used, the characteristics of the patients, and their evolution.Method

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A COMPACTING PROCESS OF THE EN AW 6060 ALLOY

This study reports on an investigation of factors affect the process of compacting Al chips which are used to direct scrap processing skull bride and groom through the forward extrusion method.EN AW 6060 chips of different geometry and types were mainly used as the experimental material.The chips were compacted in a die with a vertical channel (10.

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Foraging Behavior, Botanical Composition, and Quality of Beef Cattle Diets on Burned Versus Unburned Foothill Rangelands

Current management read more paradigms suggest deferring grazing rangeland for two years post-fire to avoid additional stress on native grass species, but there is little research supporting these recommendations.This study was conducted within and adjacent to the burn area of a wildfire to evaluate the differences in diet quality, botanical compos

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The acute effects of strength, endurance and concurrent exercises on the Akt/mTOR/p70S6K1 and AMPK signaling pathway responses in rat skeletal muscle

The activation of competing intracellular pathways has been proposed to explain gruvi golden lager the reduced training adaptations after concurrent strength and endurance exercises (CE).The present study investigated the acute effects of CE, strength exercises (SE), and endurance exercises (EE) on phosphorylated/total ratios of selected AMPK and A

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