Predicting Time to Death After Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Children.

ABSTRACT: Accurately predicting time to death after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment is valuable for family counseling and for identifying candidates for organ donation after cardiac death. This topic has been well studied in adults, but literature is scant in pediatrics. The purpose of this report is to assess the performance and clinical utility of the available tools for predicting time to death after treatment withdrawal in children.

Data sources

Terms related to predicting time to death after treatment withdrawal were searched in PubMed and Embase from 1993 to November 2021.

Study selection

Studies endeavoring to predict time to death or describe factors related to time to death were included. Articles focusing on perceptions or practices of treatment withdrawal were exclud

SUBMITTER: Winter MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9462532 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature