Limiting and Withdrawing Life Support in the PICU: For Whom Are These Options Discussed?

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Published in Pediatr Crit Care Med on February 01, 2016

Authors

Linda Keele1, Kathleen L Meert, Robert A Berg, Heidi Dalton, Christopher J L Newth, Rick Harrison, David L Wessel, Thomas Shanley, Joseph Carcillo, Wynne Morrison, Tomohiko Funai, Richard Holubkov, J Michael Dean, Murray Pollack, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network

Author Affiliations

1: 1Department of Pediatrics, Valley Children's Hospital, Fresno, CA. 2Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI. 3Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. 4Department of Pediatrics, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ. 5Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 6Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children's Hospital at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 7Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC. 8Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI. 9Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 10Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

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