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Table 3 Categories of treatment-limiting decisions in the 101 patients

From: Treatment-limiting decisions in patients with severe traumatic brain injury in a Norwegian regional trauma center

Categories of treatment-limiting decisions (TLD)

N=

Withhold

Access to ICU

7

Organ support (ventilator, vasopressor, dialysis)

10

Neurosurgery

52

DNR order

44

No escalation of treatment

19

Withdraw

ICP targeted treatment

23

Organ support

44

Nutrition by PEG or nasogastric tube

0

  1. * One patient may have several TLDs