TABLE 3.

Details for patients with agreement among medical doctors, registered nurses and charge nurses regarding withdrawal of life support

Patient	Outcome	Interval from first agreement to death, days	Age, years	Diagnosis at time of death	Length of stay, days		APACHE II	Predicted risk of death from APACHE II
					Hospital	ICU
1	Death	2	65	Prehospital VF arrest with MVC, anoxia, hypothermia	6	5.3	29	0.75
2	Death	6	66	Gangrenous foot, AKA, sepsis and cardiac complications Comorbidities COPD	25	7.8	34	0.83
3	Death	0	68	Prehospital cardiac arrest, hypothermia	3	2.2	46	0.97
4	Death	0	69	Ischemic arm, embolectomy, complicated by MODS	5	3.8	35	0.67
5	Death	2	80	Respiratory distress with pleural effusion; adenocarcinoma lung, brain metastasis	5	4.6	16	0.43
6	Death	1	74	Post OP recurrent resection, CA floor of mouth	20	11.0	23	0.43
7	Death	0	64	CO poisoning (intentional), bowel cancer, CAD	2	1.0	46	0.91
8	Death	0	70	VSA arrests with hypothermia	3	1.7	38	0.92
9	Death	1	73	Fall, TBI, SDH, SAH, IPH	8	6.5	27	0.48
10	Death	0	47	Status asthmaticus, failed ECMO	6	4.8	28	0.18
11	Death	0	83	Food aspiration, shock	2	0.7	41	0.91
12	Death	0	84	Large hemorrhagic stroke	3	2.5	33	0.63
13	Death	7	87	Esophageal perforation	62	56.0	27	0.72
14	Death	1	65	Perforated duodenal ulcer, septic shock, metastatic CA breast	13	9.2	40	0.92
15	Home	n/a*	72	COPD exacerbation, CAD	20	11.6	34	0.75
16	Death	0	76	Prehospital VSA, hypothermia	2	1.8	44	0.39
17	Death	10	86	Septic shock, arm cellulitis, complicated by CVA and MODS	14	12.9	42	0.94
18	Death	0	64	Septic shock, ascending cholangitis, admitted from other unit	38	37.3	40	0.92
19	Death	1†	72	Bilateral PE, stage 4 ovarian CA, from another hospital	18	17.5	33	0.61
	Median	0.5
	Maximum	10
	Minimum	0
	n <2 days	15

^*Eight days in intensive care unit (ICU) after agreement, died eight months post ICU discharge;

^†Consensus on question 5 occurred on day before withdrawal of life support (WLS). AKA Above knee amputation; APACHE II Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; CA Cancer; CAD Coronary artery disease; CO Carbon monoxide; COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CVA Cerebrovascular accident; ECMO Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; ICU Intensive care unit; IPH Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension; n/a Not applicable; MODS Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome; MVC Multiple vehicle crash; OP Operative; PE Pulmonary embolism; SAH Subarachnoid hemorrhage; SDH Subdural hemorrhage; TBI Traumatic brain injury; VF Ventricular fibrillation; VSA Vital signs absent