Deciding whether to withdraw life support after a severe traumatic brain injury is extremely difficult.
Some patients whose life support ended after bleeding in the brain might have recovered some acceptable function if life support was continued.
Within 72 hours of a patient being admitted with a severe traumatic brain injury, doctors often ask family members to make a difficult choice about whether to continue life support.
(The Conversation) — Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate.
Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) is increasingly used in the treatment of infarct-related cardiogenic shock despite a lack of evidence regarding its effect on mortality.
Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life support while doctors worked to keep her body functioning well enough to .