Futility of end-of-life and emergency surgery in extreme high-risk patients: anesthetists' versus surgeons' perspective.

Braz J Anesthesiol

University Hospitals of Geneva, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Division of Anaesthesiology, Geneva, Switzerland.

Published: June 2022

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