Lucknow, Jan. 14 -- The Department of Critical Care Medicine at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) Lucknow has prepared a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on 'End-of-Life Care'.
An awareness workshop will be organized on January 16 to share this SOP with health experts across the state. The workshop will be held in a hybrid mode (online and offline).
According to SGPGI, some patients admitted to the ICU suffer from incurable diseases. In such cases, doctors face the question of whether continuing life-sustaining treatment is increasing the patient's suffering, or whether only palliative care should be considered. The issue of whether it is legally permissible to stop or withdraw life-sustaining treatment ...