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Results 1 - 10 of 963 for Life
  1. Deciding about treatments that prolong life 
    Sometimes after injury or a long illness, the main organs of the body no longer work properly without support. Your health care provider ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000468.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  2. Health care agents 
    ... states, health care agents can: Choose or refuse life-sustaining and other medical treatment on your behalf ... agent to do the following: Refuse or withdraw life-enhancing care Refuse or stop tube feeding or ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000469.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Do-not-resuscitate order 
    If you are near the end of your life or you have an illness that will not ... focus of hospice care is not to prolong life, but to treat symptoms such as pain or ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000473.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  4. Advance care directives 
    ... 13, 2024. Shreves A, Quest TE. End of life. In: Walls RM, ed. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000472.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  5. Life after weight-loss surgery 
    ... eliminate many health problems Improve your quality of life Live longer It is important to understand that there will be many other changes in your life. These include the way you eat, what you ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000350.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  6. Heart failure - palliative care 
    ... your family about the kind of end-of-life care you want when you are being treated ... care you want at the end of your life. However, discussing these subjects with your doctors and ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000365.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  7. Hospice care 
    ... patients are in their last 6 months of life. ... any active treatment provide you? What would your life be like during this time? Can you change ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000467.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  8. Palliative care - managing pain 
    ... treating pain and symptoms and improving quality of life in people with serious illnesses and a limited life span. ... things or go places, and harder to enjoy life. Pain can be stressful for you and your ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000532.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  9. What is palliative care? 
    ... these areas, they have an improved quality of life. Palliative care can be given at the same ... during follow-up, and at the end of life. Palliative care may be offered for people with ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000536.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  10. Brief resolved unexplained event - BRUE 
    ... for these types of events is an apparent life-threatening event (ALTE). ... to occur during the first two months of life and between 8 a.m. and 8 p. ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007683.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
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