[Practice of treatment restriction in Hungarian intensive care units].

Unlabelled: End of life decisions affect most of patients in intensive care units, thus, it is important to know both local and international practice in accordance with law and ethical principles for intensive care physicians.

Aim: To search for local customs of end of life decisions (withholding or withdrawing the therapy, shortening of the dying process), and to compare the data with the international literature.

Methods: In 2007-2008 the first Hungarian survey was performed with the purpose to learn more about local practice of end of life decisions.