Do doctors really withdraw life support prematurely for patients with brain injuries?
Researchers accuse ICU doctors of ‘therapeutic nihilism’.
Medicine is about life and death, a fact starkest when doctors advise families to end life support for a loved one.
These decisions are routine for patients with acute brain injuries (ABIs): ischaemic strokes, intracranial haemorrhages, seizures, brain trauma or meningitis–encephalitis.
