Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies and brain death in the intensive care unit

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 726-736

  Varelas, Panayiotis N ^a   Abdelhak, Tamer ^a   Hacein Bey, Lotfi ^b  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain death; Death by cardiac death; Intensive care unit; Neurological; Withdrawal of life support

Indexed keywords

APNEA; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMA; ETHICS; EVALUATION; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 58849099518     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: 10989021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1105969     Document Type: Review

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