Slow Life Support for Imminently Dying Patients

This Viewpoint discusses slow life support, a care strategy used when clinicians believe patient recovery is impossible but cannot negotiate full withdrawal of therapies, and provides ethical analysis and practical recommendations for such practices.

Corresponding Author: Hanna Vollbrecht, MD, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 6076, Chicago, IL 60637 (hanna.vollbrecht@uchicagomedicine.org).

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