Current strategy on withdrawal of support in severely head injured patients

European Journal of Anaesthesiology, Supplement

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 17, 1998, Pages 102-105

  De Deyne, C ^a   Heylen, R ^a   De Jongh, R ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342379135     PISSN: 09521941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Jennet B, Teasdale G, Braakman R et al. Prognosis of patients with severe head injury. Neurosurgery, 1979; 4: 282-289.
2. Teasdale G, Skene A, Parker L et al. Age and outcome of severe head injury. Acta Neurochir, 1979; 28 (Suppl.): 140-143
3. Ross AM, Pitts LH, Kobayashi S. Prognosticators of outcome after major head injury in the elderly. J Neurosci Nurs, 1992; 24: 88-93.
4. Andrews BT, Pitts LH, Lovely MP, Bartowski H. Is computed tomographic scanning necessary in patients with tentorial herniation? Results of immediate surgical exploration with computed tomography in 100 patients. Neurosurgery, 1986; 19: 408-414.
5. Teasdale E, Cardosos E, Galbraith S et al. CT scan in severe diffuse head injury: physiological and clinical correlations. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatr, 1984; 47: 600-603.
6. Marmarou A, Anderson RL, Ward JD et al. Impact of ICP instability and hypotension on outcome in patients with severe head injury. J Neurosurg, 1991; 75: S59-S66.
7. Moulton R, Kresta P, Ramirez M, Tucker Q. Continuous automated monitoring of somatosensory evoked potentials in post-traumatic coma. J Trauma, 1991; 31: 676-683.
8. Braakman R, Avezaat CJJ, Maas AIR et al. Interobserver agreement in the assessment of the motor response of the GCS. Clin Neurol Neurosurg, 1977; 80: 100-106.
9. Stablein DM, Miller JD, Choi SC et al. Statistical methods for determining prognosis in severe head injury. Neurosurgery, 1980; 6: 243-248.
10. Choi SC, Narayan RK, Anderson RL, Ward JD. Enhanced specificity of prognosis in severe head injury. J Neurosurg, 1988; 69: 381-385.
11. Baldwin NG, Marmarou A, Marshall LF, Barnes T. A mathematical model for early prediction of mortality in severe head injury. AANS 59th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1991; 456-457.
12. Narayan RK, Enas GG, Choi SC, Becker DP. Practical techniques for predicting outcome in severe head injury. In: Becker DP, Gudeman DK (eds). Textbook of Head Injury. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1989: 420-425.
13. Waxman K, Sundine MJ, Young RF. Is early prediction of outcome in severe head injury possibe? Arch Surg, 1991; 126: 1237-1242.
14. Kaufman MA, Buchmann B, Scheidegger D et al. Severe head injury: Should expected outcome influence resuscitation and first day decisions? Resuscitation, 1992; 23: 199-206.
15. Bond MR. Brooks DN. Understanding the process of recovery as a basis for investigation of rehabilitation for the brain injured. Scand J Rehab Med. 1976; 8: 127-133.
16. Luce JM, Raffin TA. Withholding and withdrawal of life support from critically ill patients. Chest, 1988; 94: 621-626.
17. Ruark JE, Raffin TA. Stanford University Medical Center Committee on Ethics. Initiating and withdrawing life support: Principles and practice in adult medicine. N Engl J Med, 1988; 318: 25-30.
18. Bedell SE, Pelle D, Maher PL et al. Do-not-resuscitate orders for critically ill patients in the hospital: How are they used and what is their impact? JAMA, 1986; 256: 233-237.
19. Lipton HL. Do-not-resuscitate decisions in a community hospital: Incidence, implications, and outcomes. JAMA, 1986; 256: 1164-1169.
20. Lo B, Saika G, Strull W et al. 'Do not resuscitate' decisions: A prospective study of three teaching hospitals. Arch Intern Med, 1985; 145: 1115-1117.
21. Task Force on Ethics of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Consensus report on the ethics of foregoing life-sustaining treatments in the critically ill. Crit Care Med, 1990; 18: 1435-1439.
22. Society of Critical Care Medicine Ethics Committee: Attitudes of critical care medicine professionals concerning foregoing life-sustaining treatments. Crit Care Med, 1992; 20: 320-326.
23. O'Callahan JG, Fink C, Pitts LH, Luce JM. Withholding and withdrawing of life support from patients with severe head injury. Crit Care Med, 1995; 23: 1567-1575.
24. Pellegrino ED. Withholding and withdrawing treatments: Ethics at the bedside. Clin Neurosurg, 1987; 35: 164-184.