Shifting trends in modes of death in the Intensive Care Unit.

Purpose: To describe the way patients die in a Spanish ICU, and how the modes of death have changed in the last 10 years.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective observational study evaluating all patients who died in a Spanish tertiary ICU over a 10-year period. Modes of death were classified as death despite maximal support (D-MS), brain death (BD), and death following life-sustaining treatment limitation (D-LSTL).