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Ancillary tests for brain death [PDF]

Frontiers in Neurology
BackgroundAncillary tests are often used in the determination of death by neurologic criteria (DNC), especially when the clinical examination is inconclusive. DNC is widely accepted, as defined by the comprehensive report of the World Brain Death Project.
Shyam Duvuru, Vivek Sanker, Rajeeb Kumar Mishra, Arvind K. Sharma, Shir Lynn Lim, Nisha Baskar, Vijay K. Sharma   +6 more
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Brain based criteria for death in the light of the Aristotelian-Scholastic anthropology

Scientia et Fides, 2018
In 1968 the authors of the so-called Harvard Report, proposed the recognition of an irreversible coma as a new criterion for death. The proposal was accepted by the medical, legal, religious and political circles in spite of the lack of any explanation ...
Jacek Maria Norkowski
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The Halakhic Heartbeat at the Edge of Life: Navigating Maternal Brain Death and Fetal Life. [PDF]

Rambam Maimonides Med J
Loike JD, Flaum RT, Kadish A.
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BRAIN DEATH

British Journal of Anaesthesia, 1981
Mechanical ventilation frequently saves lives that are threatened by temporary respiratory failure; but when breathing stops due to irreversible brain damage ventilation only prolongs the process of dying, as organs serially cease to function. The possibility of extending from a few minutes to many days the interval between final failure of the brain ...
ShelleyN. Chou, R.J. Flanagan, J.G. Prior, S.M. Raper, B. Widdop, G.N. Volans   +5 more
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Brain Death and Organ Donation

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2022
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Badri Man Shrestha
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Prerequisites for the Diagnosis

Türk Yoğun Bakim Derneği Dergisi, 2023
Brain death is death according to neurological criteria and is defined as the complete and permanent loss of all functions of the brain, including those of the brain stem, expressed as an unresponsive coma with loss of brain stem reflexes.
Süha Bozbay, Oktay Demirkıran
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Evolution of the Concepts of Brain Death and Brain Stem Death

Amrita Journal of Medicine, 2020
Brain stem death has remained a topic of contention among physicians and laypersons for many years. The evolution of the current definition of brain stem death has been the end result of decades of scientific study and deliberation.
Shabala Paul, Mathew George
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Family refusal rates for organ donation after brain death and after circulatory death: a single-center 6-year experience. [PDF]

J Anesth Analg Crit Care
De Min F, Donato MA, Raimondo E, De Martino AI, Bresil A, Grossi AA, Baiardo Redaelli M, Severgnini P, Cabrini L.   +8 more
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Determination of Brain Stem Death

Amrita Journal of Medicine, 2020
This article will focus on a step by step description of the process of brain stem death testing as per Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) guidelines. This will be followed by a narrative on how the testing criteria differ among the various
Rajagopal Ramanan
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Transplantation of the heart after circulatory death of the donor: time for a change in law? [PDF]

, 2015
Procurement of organs has always been conducted according to the dead donor rule, that is, after death of the donor — but this practice is being challenged. Introduction Australia has an increasing shortfall in transplantable hearts.
James Tibballs, Neera Bhatia
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