Resumption of Cardiac Activity after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures

Sonny Dhanani¹, Laura Hornby¹, Amanda van Beinum¹+41

• ¹From the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (S.D.), Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute (S.D., L.H., A. van Beinum, M.H., H.T.), Faculty of Medicine (S.D.) and Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics (J.A.C.), University of Ottawa, Canadian Blood Services (L.H., S.D.S.), Carleton University (A. van Beinum), the Dynamical Analysis Lab (N.B.S., C.H., A.S.), Clinical Epidemiology Program (N.B.S., C.H., A.S.), and Clinical Epidemiology Program Methods Centre (T.R.), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, the Departments of Critical Care and General Surgery (G.P.) and Surgery (A.S.) and Division of Thoracic Surgery (A.S.), Ottawa Hospital, and Interventional Cardiology Program, University of Ottawa Heart Institute (D. So), Ottawa, the Department of Critical Care, Trauma and Neurosurgery Program, St. Michael's Hospital (A. Baker), Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Unity Health-St. Michael's Hospital (J.O.F., D. Scales), University of Toronto (J.O.F.), Mount Sinai Hospital (S.M., L.M.) and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine (S.M., L.M., D. Scales), University of Toronto, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (D. Scales), and the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program (H.T.), Toronto, the Departments of Critical Care and Anesthesia, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (S.B.), the Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON (J.G.B., D.M.M.), the Department of Medicine (Critical Care), Research Centre of the University of Montreal Hospital (M.C.), the Department of Critical Care, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, McGill University (J.S.), McGill University Health Centre and Research Institute (J.S., S.D.S.), Transplant Québec (M.W.), and the Division of Critical Care, Montreal Children's Hospital (S.D.S.), Montreal, the Department of Anesthesiology, Université de Sherbrooke and Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC (F. D'Aragon), the Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Community Health Sciences, and Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine (C.J.D.), and the Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences (A.H.K.), University of Calgary, and Calgary Zone, Alberta Health Services (C.J.D.), Calgary, the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, London Health Sciences Centre (T.G.), Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry (T.G.), the Department of Psychology, King's University College (L.N.), and the Department of Medicine and the Brain and Mind Institute (M. Slessarev), Western University, London, ON, the Division of Critical Care, Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (G.I.), the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton (D.J.K.), the Department of Medicine, McMaster University, and Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton, ON (M.M.), and the Division of Pediatric Intensive Care, CHU de Québec, Centre Mère-Enfant Soleil, and the Department of Pediatrics, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC (M.W.) - all in Canada; Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Critical Care Medicine Department, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh (C.D.); Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine and FNKV University Hospital (F. Duska, M. Schmidt, P.W.), and the Department of Palliative Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital (K.R.), Prague, Czech Republic; NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol (D.G., D.H.), and Adult Critical Care, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham (D.G., D.H.) - both in the United Kingdom; and the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, and the School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University (W.N.K.A.M.), and the Heart and Vascular Center, Maastricht University Medical Center (J.T.W.), Maastricht, the Netherlands.