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It must be one of the hardest decisions people ever have to make: whether to let their loved one go, switching off their life support if signs suggest they won't recover from a traumatic brain injury that happened just days ago.
Their findings, from 18 trauma centers across the United States, suggest that some patients with brain injuries who died after life support was withdrawn may have survived and even recovered some level of independence six months after injury.recommend doctors refrain from making judgements about a patient's prognosis too early. Research has only faintly begun to understand differentYet families are often asked to make the call within 72 hours of someone sustaining a severe brain injury.
This allowed the researchers to estimate the level of recovery that might have been possible at three, six, and 12 months for the 80 people who died soon after life support was withdrawn.
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