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Study: More Patients Could Survive Brain Injuries If Life Support Not Switched Off


It must be one of the hardest decisions people ever have to make: whether to let their loved one go, switching off their life support if signs suggest they won't recover from a traumatic brain injury that happened just days ago.

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