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The End-of-Life Experience of Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients

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1 The End-of-Life Experience of Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients
Seth A. Hollander, MD, John C. Dykes, MD, Sharon Chen, MD, Lynsey Barkoff, NP, Barbara Sourkes, PhD, Harvey Cohen, MD, David N. Rosenthal, MD, Daniel Bernstein, MD, Beth D. Kaufman, MD  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management  Volume 53, Issue 5, Pages (May 2017) DOI: /j.jpainsymman Copyright © 2017 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Terms and Conditions

2 Fig. 1 Circumstances of death in pediatric heart transplant recipients (n = 23). Characterization of death for pediatric heart transplant patients. Most patients died after life-sustaining measures were withdrawn. Half of the remaining patients (22%) experienced an attempted resuscitation at the time of death. DNR = do not resuscitate; ECMO = extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management  , DOI: ( /j.jpainsymman ) Copyright © 2017 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Terms and Conditions


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