Withholding therapeutic interventions in brain(stem) death: is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?

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Mohamed Y Rady. Can J Anaesth. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;69(11):1435-1436.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-022-02324-y. Epub 2022 Sep 12.

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, USA. rady.mohamed@mayo.edu.

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Keywords: brain death; cerebral blood flow; consciousness; global ischemic penumbra; intracranial perfusion pressure.

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