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

Ellery T Cunan¹, Roy W R Dudley², Sam D Shemie^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Department of Pediatric Surgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. sam.shemie@mcgill.ca.
⁴ MUHC Research Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada. sam.shemie@mcgill.ca.
⁵ Deceased Organ Donation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada. sam.shemie@mcgill.ca.

Comment

Ellery T Cunan et al. Can J Anaesth. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;69(11):1439-1440.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-022-02326-w. Epub 2022 Sep 12.

Ellery T Cunan¹, Roy W R Dudley², Sam D Shemie^{3

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5}

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Department of Pediatric Surgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. sam.shemie@mcgill.ca.
⁴ MUHC Research Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada. sam.shemie@mcgill.ca.
⁵ Deceased Organ Donation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada. sam.shemie@mcgill.ca.

No abstract available

Keywords: brain death; brain stunning; brainstem; decompressive craniectomy; pericranium.

Comment on

Decompressive craniectomy as a potentially reversible condition in brain death-brain stunning or skin and pericranium stretching?
Cunan ET, Dudley R, Shemie SD. Cunan ET, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2022 Jul;69(7):811-814. doi: 10.1007/s12630-022-02264-7. Epub 2022 May 10. Can J Anaesth. 2022. PMID: 35534771 English. No abstract available.
Withholding therapeutic interventions in brain(stem) death: is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Rady MY. Rady MY. Can J Anaesth. 2022 Nov;69(11):1435-1436. doi: 10.1007/s12630-022-02324-y. Epub 2022 Sep 12. Can J Anaesth. 2022. PMID: 36097130 No abstract available.

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