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Honoring the Personhood of Brain-Dead Patients: A Delicate Approach

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Photo by RIDVAN AYRIK/ Pexels In the past month, we had a couple of patients in our pediatric ICU who had suffered tragic neurological injuries and were declared medically brain-dead. In these types of cases, the actual moment-by-moment practice of bedside nursing care becomes complicated.