 Life Support Care
"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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Life Support Care" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Life Support Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Life Support Care" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Maconochie IK, Aickin R, Hazinski MF, Atkins DL, Bingham R, Couto TB, Guerguerian AM, Nadkarni VM, Ng KC, Nuthall GA, Ong GYK, Reis AG, Schexnayder SM, Scholefield BR, Tijssen JA, Nolan JP, Morley PT, Van de Voorde P, Zaritsky AL, de Caen AR. Pediatric Life Support: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations. Circulation. 2020 10 20; 142(16_suppl_1):S140-S184.
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Kim J, Choi J, Shin MS, Kim M, Seo E, An M, Shim JL, Heo S. Do advance directive attitudes and perceived susceptibility and end-of-life life-sustaining treatment preferences between patients with heart failure and cancer differ? PLoS One. 2020; 15(9):e0238567.
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Eisenberg L. Death Before Birth: The Ethicaland Legal Landscape. Am J Bioeth. 2017 Jul; 17(7):81-82.
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