- ►critcaremed.org RD Truog, ML Campbell, JR Curtis, CE Haas … - Critical care medicine, 2008 - journals.lww.com Admission to the ICU is therefore of- ten a therapeutic trial. Only when the
trial fails do patients and families con- sider a change in goals, from
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RD Truog - JL Med. & Ethics, 2007 - heinonlinebackup.com The concept of brain death was recently described as being "at once well settled
and persistently unresolved.", Every day, in the United States and around the
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RD Truog - The New England journal of medicine, 2007 - nejm.highwire.org For several weeks this spring, national attention was focused on a mother's
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