Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in a mixed intensive care unit: Most common in patients with Catastropic brain injury

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 130-135

  Verkade, Martijn A ^a   Epker, Jelle L ^a   Nieuwenhoff, Mariska D ^a   Bakker, Jan ^a   Kompanje, Erwin J O ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

End of life; Intensive care; Subarachnoid haemorrhage; Traumatic brain injury; Withdrawal of treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FAILURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFA SCORE; SURVIVAL TIME; SURVIVOR; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84861102030     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-011-9567-y     Document Type: Article

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