"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Life Support Care" by people in Profiles.
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Emergency Neurological Life Support: Fourth Edition, Updates in the Approach to Early Management of a Neurological Emergency. Neurocrit Care. 2020 04; 32(2):636-640.
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Prospective parents' perspectives on antenatal decision making for the anticipated birth of a periviable infant. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2019 Mar; 32(5):820-825.
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Associations Between Personality and End-of-Life Care Preferences Among Men With Prostate Cancer: A Clustering Approach. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2016 Jan; 51(1):52-9.
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Implications of the new international sepsis guidelines for nursing care. Am J Crit Care. 2013 May; 22(3):212-22.
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Status epilepticus and the use of continuous EEG monitoring in the intensive care unit. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2012 Jun; 18(3):560-78.
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Parent decision making for life support for extremely premature infants: from the prenatal through end-of-life period. J Perinat Neonatal Nurs. 2011 Jan-Mar; 25(1):52-60.
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How patients die after intracerebral hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2009; 11(1):45-9.
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Enacting a theory of caring to recruit and retain vulnerable participants for sensitive research. Res Nurs Health. 2006 Jun; 29(3):244-52.
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Life support decisions for extremely premature infants: report of a pilot study. J Pediatr Nurs. 2005 Oct; 20(5):347-59.
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Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: The Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Crit Care Med. 2001 Dec; 29(12):2332-48.