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INTRODUCTION: Predicting time to death after terminal extubation is valuable to augment family counseling and identify suitable candidates for organ donation after circulatory death (DCD). Our objective was to train and validate a machine learning…

The post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) concept whereby the ICU experience of the patient as well as their family can have long-term deleterious health outcomes in both the patient and the family provides a rationale and impetus for modifying the ICU…

Organ donation after euthanasia has been performed more than 70 times in Belgium and the Netherlands combined (personal communication, Jan Bollen, 2018). These two countries allow for euthanasia in minors as well, while Luxembourg, Colombia and…

Background: Research has shown that many babies who die in neonatal units could have been potential tissue and/or organ donors. Despite the existence of guidelines supporting its implementation, the incidence of neonatal donation remains rare in the…

Introduction: Paediatric palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of both the patients and their families when facing life-threatening illnesses. However, regions with strong religious and cultural practices made caring for ill children…

Objective: A proportion of children die, making them potentially eligible to be organ/tissue donors. Not all are approached for donation, and experiences of those parents are not well understood. The objective was to investigate to what extent organ…

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