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"Wishes Unknown: " A Case Report
Silvia E Perez-Protto1, James R Rowbottom, Mark A Taylor
1From the Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
A&A Practice
|June 11, 2019
Abstract:
We report the case of a 55-year-old woman who required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for extreme respiratory distress after a liver transplant and eventually died. As is so often the case, this patient's values and wishes were not documented before she had a risky surgical procedure. Anesthesiologists, in partnership with surgeons, can participate in preoperative discussions exploring wishes and values and document them in advance directives which will help clinicians respect patients' preferences.