Canadian Doctors Quick to Push Families of Brain-Injured to Withdraw Treatment, Study Reveals |: The study of six different Canadian trauma centers found that the majority of deaths in patients suffering a traumatic brain injury resulted from the withdrawal of life support, generally within the first three days of ICU admission. The study, “Mortality associated with withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy for patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a Canadian multicentre cohort study,” found the removal of life-sustaining therapy was, in large part, due to the physicians’ negative attitude toward the patients’ potential long-term quality of life.
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