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2316737

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-4-20
pubmed:abstractText
The authors describe cases illustrating two types of high-risk and especially difficult suicidal psychiatric inpatients. In the first case, a suicidal patient reacted to psychiatric life support measures (maximum observation) with increasingly life-threatening acting out, necessitating a difficult, seemingly paradoxical staff decision to withdraw life support. In the second, a patient felt to be improving killed herself when life support was withdrawn. The authors argue that there are clinical limits to psychiatric life support and an appropriate goal of psychiatric treatment is to maximize the chances for patient survival, rather than to attempt to guarantee such survival.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0002-953X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
147
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
488-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Paradoxical patient reactions to psychiatric life support: clinical and ethical considerations.
pubmed:affiliation
Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital, NY.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports