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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abc</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>S&#227;o Paulo, SP, Brazil</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1590/S0066-782X2012001500015</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Carta ao Editor</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Testamento Vital</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Grinberg</surname>
            <given-names>Max</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Chehaibar</surname>
            <given-names>Graziela Zlotnik</given-names>
          </name>
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          <named-content content-type="city">S&#227;o Paulo</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o</institution>
        <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
      </aff>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>99</volume>
      <issue>6</issue>
      <fpage>1166</fpage>
      <lpage>1166</lpage>
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        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" xml:lang="en">
          <license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</license-p>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub">
        <day>11</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2013</year>
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    <p>
      <bold>CARTA AO EDITOR</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Testamento Vital</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Max Grinberg; Graziela Zlotnik Chehaibar</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o - InCor, S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brasil</p>
    <p>
      <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="end">Correspond&#234;ncia</xref>
    </p>
    <p><bold>Palavras-chave: </bold>Testamentos quanto &#224; vida; Direito de Morrer; Bio&#233;tica.</p>
    <p>Sr. Editor, </p>
    <p>Delibera&#231;&#245;es com autonomia devem ser estimuladas e os jovens m&#233;dicos t&#234;m sido treinados a evitar atitudes de paternalismo com seus pacientes. O tema do desejo com liberdade &#233; antigo em filosofia, o homem tem a sensa&#231;&#227;o de estar livre durante um ato volunt&#225;rio, mas h&#225; que considerar o envolvimento de componentes conscientes e inconscientes<sup>1-5</sup>.</p>
    <p>Recentemente, o Conselho Federal de Medicina baixou a Resolu&#231;&#227;o 1995/2012 que disp&#245;e sobre as diretivas antecipadas de vontade dos pacientes, dentro do conceito de ortotan&#225;sia, tema com pressupostos no C&#243;digo de &#201;tica M&#233;dica e na Resolu&#231;&#227;o 1805/2006. Subentende-se que interven&#231;&#245;es agressivas n&#227;o somente podem ser f&#250;teis, como tamb&#233;m inadequadas em fase terminal de doen&#231;as e morte inevit&#225;vel no curto prazo.</p>
    <p>A express&#227;o sobre os tipos de tratamento que o paciente deseja dos profissionais de sa&#250;de e dos cuidadores durante o est&#225;gio terminal de vida, registrada ainda com qualidade de vida preservada, &#233; conhecida como Testamento Vital (TV) e j&#225; existente em pa&#237;ses como Espanha, Jap&#227;o, Estados Unidos da Am&#233;rica, Portugal e Uruguai. No Brasil, &#233; assunto em discuss&#227;o.</p>
    <p>A insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca terminal no idoso portador de cardiopatia traz alta relev&#226;ncia ao contexto de delibera&#231;&#245;es sobre aplica&#231;&#227;o dos m&#233;todos dispon&#237;veis em Cardiologia. Por isso, os cardiologistas devem se interessar pelo contexto do TV.</p>
    <p>Considerando a probabilidade de a nova gera&#231;&#227;o de m&#233;dicos vir a lidar com o Testamento Vital, realizamos uma pesquisa com 32 m&#233;dicos-residentes do Programa de Cardiologia do InCor e obtivemos os seguintes resultados: a) 65,3% t&#234;m algum conhecimento sobre o TV; b) 96,8% acreditam que o TV ser&#225; &#250;til para a tomada de decis&#227;o; c) 96,8% entendem que o paciente far&#225; modifica&#231;&#245;es no conte&#250;do do pr&#243;prio TV ao longo da sua doen&#231;a; d) 84,3% respeitariam sem questionamentos o desejo manifesto no TV.</p>
    <p>Os dados refletem n&#227;o somente o respeito do jovem m&#233;dico pelo direito do paciente participar ativamente na decis&#227;o sobre a pr&#243;pria vida, como tamb&#233;m uma boa receptividade ao TV como parte do prontu&#225;rio do paciente.</p>
    <p>
      <fn id="end" fn-type="corresp">
        <label>
          <bold> Correspond&#234;ncia:</bold>
        </label>
        <p> Max Grinberg </p>
        <p> Rua Manoel Antonio Pinto, 04 / 21&#170;, Parais&#243;polis </p>
        <p> CEP 05663-020, S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brasil </p>
        <p> E-mail: </p>
        <p><email xlink:href="max@cardiol.br">max@cardiol.br</email>, </p>
        <p>
          <email xlink:href="grinberg@incor.usp.br">grinberg@incor.usp.br</email>
        </p>
      </fn>
    </p>
    <p>Recebido em 04/09/12; revisado em 28/09/12; aceito em 28/09/12.</p>
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          <subject>Letter to the Editor</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title xml:lang="en">Living Wills</article-title>
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    <body>
      <p>
        <bold>LETTER TO THE EDITOR</bold>
      </p>
      <p>
        <fn id="enda-body2">
          <label>
            <bold>Living Wills</bold>
          </label>
          <p>
            <bold>Max Grinberg; Graziela Zlotnik Chehaibar</bold>
          </p>
        </fn>
      </p>
      <p>Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o - InCor, S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brasil</p>
      <p>Mailing Address</p>
      <p><bold>Keywords: </bold>Living Wills; Right to Die; Bioethics. </p>
      <p>Dear Editor, </p>
      <p>Autonomous decisions should be encouraged and young doctors have been trained to avoid patronizing attitudes toward their patients. The subject of desire together with freedom is an old concept in philosophy; mankind has the sensation of being free during a voluntary act, but one must consider the involvement of conscious and unconscious components<sup>1-5</sup>.</p>
      <p>Recently, the Federal Council of Medicine issued Resolution 1995/2012, which provides for advance directives of patients' wills within the concept of orthothanasia, a subject that has assumptions in the Code of Medical Ethics and Resolution 1805/2006. It is understood that aggressive interventions may be not only futile, but also inadequate in the scenario of end-stage illness and inevitable death in the short term. </p>
      <p>The manifestation on the types of treatment that patients want from health professionals and caregivers during the end stage of life, registered while they still have preserved quality of life, is known as the Living Will (LW) and already exists in countries such as Spain, Japan, United States, Portugal and Uruguay. In Brazil, it is being discussed. </p>
      <p>End-stage heart failure in the elderly with heart disease brings high relevance to the context of discussions on the use of available methods in cardiology. Therefore, cardiologists should be interested in the context of LWs.</p>
      <p>Considering the likelihood that the new generation of doctors will have to deal with patients' Living Wills, we carried out a study with 32 medical residents from the Cardiology Program of <italic>Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o</italic> and obtained the following results: a) 65.3% have some knowledge on LWs; b) 96.8% believe that the LW will be useful in decision-making, c) 96.8% believe that patients will make changes in the content of their LWs during the course of the illness d) 84.3% of doctors would unquestioningly respect their patients' LWs.</p>
      <p>The data reflect not only the young doctors' respect for the patients' right to participate actively in decisions concerning their own lives, but also showed good acceptance of the LW as part of the patient's medical record.</p>
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