information from the newsletter "💉ARO MD When to stop? The most difficult decisions in the ICU": ARO MD Newsletter #19 is dedicated to end-of-life (EOL) management for patients in the ICU. It emphasizes the need for discussion on this topic. He points to the December Guidelines on End of Life in the ICU from Critical Care Medicine, which bring systematicity to decision-making. The Guidelines recommend structured procedures for multidisciplinary discussions, clear determination of decision-making responsibilities, and early consultation with palliative care teams or an ethics committee. Hospital conflict resolution policies and the use of termination protocols that do not involve hastening death but improve symptom control are important. The Slovak Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Medicine (SSAIM) defines the goal of intensive treatment as maintaining life, not prolonging dying.