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[Consensus on therapeutic effort limitation, with a palliative care approach]
María S Ciruzzi1, Gisela M Delmonte1, Estela Di Cola1
1Comité Nacional de Cuidados Paliativos, Sociedad Argentina de Pediatría.
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The National Committee for Palliative Care expressed their commitment to approach the decision of foregoing life sustaining treatment from a palliative care perspective, allowing the implementation of a care program to prevent therapeutic obstinacy, respect the dignity of the patient and their parents, and evaluate a rational, reasonable and adequate use of health and technological resources by focusing on the quality of life of the child, in order to realize their best interest, providing a guide that facilitates the decision-making process in dilemmatic situations in pediatrics.
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