Recovery Potential in Patients After Cardiac Arrest Who Die After Limitations or Withdrawal of Life Support.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding the relationship between patients' clinical characteristics and outcomes is fundamental to medicine. When critically ill patients die after withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy (WLST), the inability to observe the potential for recovery with continued aggressive care could bias future clinical decisions and research.

Objective

To quantify the frequency with which experts consider patients who died after WLST following resuscitated cardiac arrest to have had recovery potential if life-sustaining therapy had been continued.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective cohort study included comatose adult patients (aged ≥18 years) treated following resuscitation from cardiac arrest at a single academic medical center between January 1, 201

SUBMITTER: Elmer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11937936 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature