TY - JOUR
T1 - Bjørn Ibsen
T2 - intensive care and the conundrum of prolonging death
AU - Mets, Berend
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 British Journal of Anaesthesia
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - By demonstrating that positive pressure ventilation could save the life of a poliomyelitis victim in 1952 in Copenhagen, Dr Bjørn Ibsen brought anaesthesia techniques to the wards. But this also raised the conundrum that artificial ventilation could prolong the onset of death. And so launched a national polemic that resulted in Danish legislation requiring doctors not to prolong death by artificial means, but instead to allow patients to die in peace and dignity.
AB - By demonstrating that positive pressure ventilation could save the life of a poliomyelitis victim in 1952 in Copenhagen, Dr Bjørn Ibsen brought anaesthesia techniques to the wards. But this also raised the conundrum that artificial ventilation could prolong the onset of death. And so launched a national polemic that resulted in Danish legislation requiring doctors not to prolong death by artificial means, but instead to allow patients to die in peace and dignity.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bja.2025.11.037
DO - 10.1016/j.bja.2025.11.037
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 41483997
AN - SCOPUS:105027192800
SN - 0007-0912
JO - British Journal of Anaesthesia
JF - British Journal of Anaesthesia
ER -
