II. Definitions
- Living Will
- Advance Directive indicates health care preferences
- Determined while patient is cognitively intact
- May include directions regarding life prolongation
- Activated if patient becomes incapacitated
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| Definition (NCI_NCI-GLOSS) | A type of legal advance directive in which a person describes specific treatment guidelines that are to be followed by health care providers if he or she becomes terminally ill and cannot communicate. A living will usually has instructions about whether to use aggressive medical treatment to keep a person alive (such as CPR, artificial nutrition, use of a respirator). |
| Definition (MSH) | Written, witnessed declarations in which persons request that if they become disabled beyond reasonable expectation of recovery, they be allowed to die rather than be kept alive by extraordinary means. (Bioethics Thesaurus) |
| Concepts | Regulation or Law (T089) |
| MSH | D016224 |
| LNC | LA17321-3 |
| English | Living Wills, Will, Living, Wills, Living, living wills, living will, Living Will, Living will |
| Swedish | Livstestamenten |
| Czech | kvalifikovaný reverz, poslední vůle - souhlas k euthanasii, dříve vyslovená přání |
| Finnish | Hoitotahto |
| Russian | UKAZANIE BOL'NOGO O PREKRASHCHENII SOBSTVENNOI ZHIZNI, SOSTAVLENNOE ZABLAGOVREMENNO, PRAVO RASPORIAZHAT'SIA SOBSTVENNOI ZHIZN'IU I SMERT'IU, SMERT', UZAKONENNOE PRAVO INDIVIDUUMA, ПРАВО РАСПОРЯЖАТЬСЯ СОБСТВЕННОЙ ЖИЗНЬЮ И СМЕРТЬЮ, СМЕРТЬ, УЗАКОНЕННОЕ ПРАВО ИНДИВИДУУМА, УКАЗАНИЕ БОЛЬНОГО О ПРЕКРАЩЕНИИ СОБСТВЕННОЙ ЖИЗНИ, СОСТАВЛЕННОЕ ЗАБЛАГОВРЕМЕННО |
| Italian | Testamento biologico |
| French | Dernières volontés, Testament de fin de vie, Testament de vie, Testament biologique |
| Polish | Testament życia, Życzenie umierającego, Brak zgody na uporczywe leczenie |
| Norwegian | Livstestamenter |
| Spanish | Testamento Vital, Voluntad en Vida |
| German | Patiententestamente |
| Dutch | Wilsverklaring, Wilsverklaringen |
| Portuguese | Testamentos Quanto à Vida |
