Neither guidelines nor symptom-targeted opioids are harmful when withdrawing life-sustaining measures.

Intensive Care Med

Division of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, 200 Elizabeth St. 9 N-926, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada.

Published: August 2016

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