Neurologic prognosis and withdrawal of life support after resuscitation from cardiac arrest
- 11 July 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 67 (1), 105-108
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000223335.86166.b4
Abstract
Objective: To study the impact of neurologic prognostication on the decision to withdraw life-sustaining therapies (LST) in comatose patients resuscitated after cardiac arrest.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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