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Pain management during the withholding and withdrawal of life support in critically ill patients at the end of life: a response to a comment

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA

    Andres Laserna

  2. Department of Critical Care, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    John A. Cuenca

  3. Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University-MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Cosmo Fowler

  4. Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Alejandro Duran-Crane

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Laserna, A., Cuenca, J.A., Fowler, C. et al. Pain management during the withholding and withdrawal of life support in critically ill patients at the end of life: a response to a comment. Intensive Care Med 47, 491–492 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06344-4

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