Medicina intensiva
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Multicenter Study
End-of-life practices in patients with devastating brain injury in Spain: implications for organ donation.
To describe end-of-life care practices relevant to organ donation in patients with devastating brain injury in Spain. ⋯ Although deceased donation is optimized in Spain, there are still opportunities for improvement in the identification of possible donors outside the ICU and in the consideration of donation after circulatory death in patients who die following the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy.