Should We Discharge Comatose Patients from Intensive Care to Die in Their Own Bed at Home After Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation?

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Journal Intensive Care Med

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2009 Mar 13

PMID 19280176

Citations 3

Authors

Erwin J O Kompanje

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