Life Support Limitations in Mechanically Ventilated Stroke Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The determinants of decisions to limit life support (withholding or withdrawal) in ventilated stroke patients have been evaluated mainly for patients with intracranial hemorrhages. We aimed to evaluate the frequency of life support limitations in ventilated ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke patients compared with a nonbrain-injured population and to determine factors associated with such decisions.

Design

Multicenter prospective French observational study.

Setting

Fourteen ICUs of the French OutcomeRea network.

Patients

From 2005 to 2016, we included stroke patients and nonbrain-injured patients requiring invasive ventilation within 24 hours of ICU admission.

Intervention

None.

Measurements and main results

We identified 373 stroke patien

SUBMITTER: de Montmollin E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7901798 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature