• Crit Care Explor · Jul 2020

    Psychological Attachment Orientations of Surrogate Decision-Makers and Goals-of-Care Decisions for Brain Injury Patients in ICUs.

    • Andrea K Knies, Qiang Zhang, Prerak Juthani, Stephanie Tu, Jolanta Pach, Aida Martinez, Joan K Monin, and David Y Hwang.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
    • Crit Care Explor. 2020 Jul 1; 2 (7): e0151.

    AbstractTo determine whether ICU surrogates with "insecure" psychologic attachment orientations are more prone to requesting tracheostomy and gastrostomy (i.e., life-sustaining therapy) for severe acute brain injury patients with poor prognosis compared to surrogates with "secure" orientations.Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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