The clinical and ethical challenges of treating comatose patients following severe brain injury

Jeffrey V Rosenfeld^{1

2}, Tiit I Mathiesen^{3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Monash University, Clayton, Australia. j.rosenfeld@alfred.org.au.
² The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. j.rosenfeld@alfred.org.au.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁴ Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section for Neurosurgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Editorial

Jeffrey V Rosenfeld et al. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2023 Apr.

. 2023 Apr;165(4):829-831.

doi: 10.1007/s00701-022-05376-7. Epub 2022 Oct 4.

Jeffrey V Rosenfeld^{1

2}, Tiit I Mathiesen^{3

4

5}

¹ Monash University, Clayton, Australia. j.rosenfeld@alfred.org.au.
² The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. j.rosenfeld@alfred.org.au.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁴ Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section for Neurosurgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Understanding, detecting, and stimulating consciousness recovery in the ICU.
Kondziella D, Amiri M, Othman MH, Jakobsen EW, Jansen T, Møller K. Kondziella D, et al. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2023 Apr;165(4):809-828. doi: 10.1007/s00701-022-05378-5. Epub 2022 Oct 15. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2023. PMID: 36242637 Review.

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