Rethinking life-support decisions - Harvard Gazette
WEBMay 24, 2024 · A new study of nearly 1,400 U.S. patients with severe traumatic brain injuries (TBI) found that some patients for whom life support was withdrawn may have survived and recovered some level of independence a few months after injury.
Study: More Patients Could Survive Brain Injuries If Life Support …
WEBTheir findings, from 18 trauma centers across the United States, suggest that some patients with brain injuries who died after life support was withdrawn may have survived and even recovered some level of independence six months after injury.
Some patients with brain injuries have life support withdrawn too …
WEBMay 31, 2024 · Life support for patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) may sometimes be withdrawn too early, when it's possible that patients could eventually recover, new research suggests.
Study reveals patients with brain injuries who died after …
WEBMay 13, 2024 · Families are often asked to make decision to withdraw life support within 72 hours of a brain injury, and the new study suggests delaying decisions may be beneficial for some patients.
Some brain injury patients would recover if life support weren't …
WEBMay 16, 2024 · A substantial proportion of people with a traumatic brain injury who had their life support withdrawn may have survived and at least partially recovered, a study suggests.
Archie Battersbee: Who decides when life support ends? - BBC News
WEBAug 6, 2022 · By Michelle Roberts. Digital health editor. Cases like Archie Battersbee's are extremely rare. But when disagreements occur over whether a child's life support should end, they present terrible...
Across The COVID-Ravaged South, High-Level Life Support Is ... - NPR
WEBSep 6, 2021 · ECMO, the highest level of mechanical life support, functions as a temporary heart and lungs for some of COVID-19's sickest patients. But the waitlist is too long for many patients who need it.
After Brain Injuries, Doctors and Families Should Take More Time …
WEBMay 23, 2024 · The study finds that, when kept on life support, some traumatic brain injury patients may heal enough to regain at least partial independence. Some might even be able to resume their pre-injury...
British boy dies after life support stopped at end of long legal ... - CNN
WEBAug 8, 2022 · Doctors eventually concluded the boy to be “brain-stem dead,” which led his family to pursue a legal battle over maintaining his life-sustaining support in the hope he would recover, PA...
Archie Battersbee: New court hearing as boy's family fight ... - Sky News
WEBAug 1, 2022 · Archie - who has been on life support since April after being found unconscious at home by his mother in Southend, Essex - was set to have treatment withdrawn at 2pm today. But following interventions from the government and the UN a virtual Court of Appeal held a hearing that began at 11am on Monday.
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