Decisions to withdraw life support treatments in critically ill patients with severe brain injury are complicated, are based on many factors, and are usually made by critical care physicians and ...

is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The fourth floor of the long-term-care hospital where I sometimes work houses patients with severe brain ...

Previous research has highlighted the importance of brain-lung interaction in critically unwell individuals. However, further investigation is needed to understand the pathophysiological linkages ...

"Factors influencing decisions by critical care physicians to withdraw life-sustaining treatments in critically ill adult patients with severe traumatic brain injury" is published June 17, 2019 ...

These hospitalizations are also impacting other people’s ability to get critical care. Emily Houser, 25, of Iron Mountain is currently waiting to undergo brain surgery due to a lack of beds.

Previously, medical decisions largely depended on the fetus’s gestational age when brain death was declared. However, advances in critical care now allow for sustaining maternal bodily functions ...

Professor Peter Andrews, head of critical care medicine at the University of Edinburgh, said: “This trial has shown that hypothermia can successfully reduce brain pressure following trauma, but after ...