Futility of end-of-life and emergency surgery in extreme high-risk patients: anesthetists' versus surgeons' perspective

Affiliations

• ¹ University Hospitals of Geneva, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Division of Anaesthesiology, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: rosa.tesoro@hcuge.ch.
• ² University Hospitals of Geneva, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Division of Anaesthesiology, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ³ University Hospitals of Geneva, Department of Visceral Surgery, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁴ University Hospitals of Geneva, Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Division of Palliative Care, Geneva, Switzerland.