Limitation of treatment in prehospital care - the experiences of helicopter emergency medical service physicians in a nationwide multicentre survey.
Heidi KangasniemiPiritta SetäläHeini HuhtalaAntti KämäräinenIlkka VirkkunenJoonas TirkkonenArvi Yli-HankalaSanna HoppuPublished in: Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine (2019)
Making limitation of care orders is an important but often invisible part of a HEMS physician's work. HEMS physicians expressed that patients in long-term care were often without limitations of care orders in situations where an order would have been ethically in accordance with the patient's best interests.
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