end of life decisions (geriatric medicine)

Left hepatic hydrothorax without ascites
Dorian Garin, Ulysse Voirol, Julien Vaucher, Gaël Grandmaison

BMJ Case Reports CP Jan 2024, 17 (1) e258427; DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2023-258427
Massive bilateral stroke in a COVID-19 patient
Iskandar Zulqarnain Bin Mohamed, Laura Balson, Shyam Madathil

BMJ Case Reports CP Aug 2020, 13 (8) e236254; DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2020-236254
Request for euthanasia by a psychiatric patient with undetected intellectual disability
Olga Schmahl, Richard Oude Voshaar, Aïda van de Poel-Mustafayeva, Radboud Marijnissen

BMJ Case Reports CP Aug 2021, 14 (8) e239862; DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2020-239862

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end of life decisions (geriatric medicine)