Prediction of death in less than 60 minutes following withdrawal of cardiorespiratory support in ICUs

Title: Prediction of death in less than 60 minutes following withdrawal of cardiorespiratory support in ICUs
Creator: Brieva, Jorge; Coleman, Nicole; Lacey, Jeanette; Harrigan, Peter; Lewin, Terry J.; Carter, Gregory L.
Relation: Critical Care Medicine Vol. 41, Issue 12, p. 2677-2687
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182987f38
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2013
Description: Half of all ICU patients die within 60 minutes of withdrawal of cardiorespiratory support. Prediction of which patients die before and after 60 minutes would allow changes in service organization to improve patient palliation, family grieving, and allocation of ICU beds. This study tested various predictors of death within 60 minutes and explored which clinical variables ICU specialists used to make their prediction.
Subject: end-of-life; organ donation; palliative care
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1301301
Identifier: uon:20251
Identifier: ISSN:1530-0293
Language: eng
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