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What influences critical care doctors in withdrawing life support for patients with severe brain injury?

Jul 8, 2019 – A recent publication from our research program in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ):

Factors influencing decisions by critical care physicians to withdraw life-sustaining treatments in critically ill adult patients with severe traumatic brain injury: AF Turgeon, K Dorrance, P Archambault, F Lauzier, F Lamontagne, R Zarychanski, R Fowler, L Moore, J Lacroix, S English, A Boutin, J Muscedere, KEA Burns, D Griesdale, LA McIntyre, D Scales, F Bernard, J Yamada and JE Squires; for the Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. CMAJ June 17, 2019 191 (24) E652-E663.

Article: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/191/24/E652

Visual abstract: https://bit.ly/2F4OHlt

 

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