Surrogate decision making: a woman in fulminant liver failure after an acetaminophen overdose

Surgery. 2011 Nov;150(5):1006-10. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.09.029.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acetaminophen / poisoning*
  • Advance Care Planning / ethics*
  • Analgesics, Non-Narcotic / poisoning
  • Chronic Pain / drug therapy
  • Critical Care / ethics
  • Decision Making / ethics
  • Drug Overdose
  • Education, Medical, Continuing
  • Female
  • General Surgery / ethics*
  • Humans
  • Liver Failure, Acute / chemically induced
  • Liver Failure, Acute / surgery*
  • Liver Transplantation / ethics
  • Middle Aged
  • Palliative Care / ethics
  • Proxy*
  • Quality of Life

Substances

  • Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
  • Acetaminophen