"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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| 1994 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 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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Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Vaccine against Critical Covid-19 in Adolescents. N Engl J Med. 2022 02 24; 386(8):713-723.
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Emergency Neurological Life Support: Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2015 Dec; 23 Suppl 2:S83-93.
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Discontinuance of life sustaining treatment utilizing ketamine for symptom management. J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2015 Mar; 29(1):37-40.
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The locus of decision making for severely impaired newborn infants. Am J Bioeth. 2011 Feb; 11(2):39-40.
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The "PSOST": Providers' Signout for Scope of Treatment. J Palliat Med. 2010 Sep; 13(9):1055-8.
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Palliative care consultation in the process of organ donation after cardiac death. J Palliat Med. 2007 Feb; 10(1):118-26.
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"Inappropriate" treatment near the end of life: conflict between religious convictions and clinical judgment. Arch Intern Med. 2003 Jul 28; 163(14):1645-9.
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Emergency cardiopulmonary bypass for cardiac arrest refractory to pediatric advanced life support. Pediatr Emerg Care. 1999 Feb; 15(1):30-2.
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Improved prehospital pediatric ALS care after an EMT-paramedic clinical training course. Am J Emerg Med. 1994 Jul; 12(4):429-32.
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A population-based study of the association of medical manpower with county trauma death rates in the United States. Ann Surg. 1994 May; 219(5):547-63; discussion 563-7.