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. 2019 Jun;16(6):482-489.
doi: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2019.06.010.

An overview of end-of-life issues in a cardiology department. Is the mode of death worse in the cardiac intensive care unit?

Lourdes Vicent  1 , Vanesa Bruña  1 , Carolina Devesa  1 , Jorge García-Carreño  1 , Iago Sousa-Casasnovas  1 , Miriam Juárez  1 , Francisco Fernández-Avilés  1   2 , Manuel Martínez-Sellés  1   2   3
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An overview of end-of-life issues in a cardiology department. Is the mode of death worse in the cardiac intensive care unit?

Lourdes Vicent et al. J Geriatr Cardiol. 2019 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiovascular death; Mortality; Withdraw of life-sustaining therapies.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Mortality during hospital admission in patients admitted after a resuscitated cardiac arrest.
The bar height represents the percentage of patients admitted after a resuscitated cardiac arrest who died from each cause throughout the hospital admission (n = 145). Hospital mortality has been divided in three periods: ≤ 24 h, 2–4 days, and ≥ 5 days.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Rate of treatment administration in the last 24 h of life.
DNR: do-not-resuscitate.
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