[Ethical issues surrounding death in pre-hospital medicine].

Rev Infirm

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Published: November 2023

Mobile emergency and resuscitation teams are confronted with death on a daily basis. In the home, the management of a death is complex. It raises ethical questions and sometimes destabilizes personal or collective values. Our single-center qualitative survey, conducted over a one-month period (2022), questioned 64/154 caregivers about the moral burden and challenges of such situations. The consequences of operational experience are discussed: time, fatigue, emotions and training. The quality of presence is an alternative to the success or failure of cardiac arrest care at home.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revinf.2023.09.012DOI Listing

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