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Reversible Brain Death: A Rare Manifestation of Snake Envenomation
Indian Journal of Medical Specialities, 2023 Snakebite is a serious public health problem and one of the priorities in WHO's list of neglected tropical diseases. It significantly increases morbidity and mortality associated with envenomation in India.
Ankusha Patra +3 more
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Brain death: a clinical overview
Journal of Intensive Care, 2022 Brain death, also commonly referred to as death by neurologic criteria, has been considered a legal definition of death for decades. Its determination involves many considerations and subtleties.
William Spears, Asim Mian, David Greer
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Pathophysiology of Brain Stem Death
Amrita Journal of Medicine, 2020 Brain stem death (BD) is a pathological process which has a profound effect on hemodynamic balance, hormone levels and functioning of other organ systems. It also triggers a systemic inflammatory response.
Eldo Issac, Sarath Venugopalan
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Treating the dead; how far ought medicine go to obtain transplantable organs?
Frontiers in Transplantation, 2023 Under what circumstances, is it ethical to perform tumor surgery on a brain-dead individual? The neurosurgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital were recently faced with such a question when asked to operate on a 28-year-old man who was pronounced brain ...
Joshua D. Bernstock +6 more
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Neurology International, 2010 Brain death (BD) should be understood as the ultimate clinical expression of a brain catastrophe characterized by a complete and irreversible neurological stoppage, recognized by irreversible coma, absent brainstem reflexes, and apnea.
Calixto Machado
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Atypical Pupil Reactions in Brain Dead Patients
Brain Sciences, 2021 Background: During routine diagnosis of brain death, changes in pupil diameter in response to the stimulation of peripheral nerves are sometimes observed.
Joanna Sołek-Pastuszka +8 more
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Morte cerebral: do medo de ser enterrado vivo ao mito do dador vivo.
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2004 To analyse the historical evolution of the clinical concept "brain death", and discuss the concepts: whole-brain death and brainstem death in clinical perspective.Taphophobia means the fear of premature burial. Its modern equivalent is the fear of organs
Fernando Pita, Cátia Carmona
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Swan Song: An Account of Organ Donation after Circulatory Death
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2022 This is an account of a procedure of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) that took place in July 2019 in a French hospital. Based on an ethnography in the neuro intensive care unit (neuro-ICU) of this hospital, I describe the impressions that ...
Laurence Tessier
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Brain death confirmation [PDF]
Der Radiologe, 2020 The number of patients waiting for a new organ has continuously decreased in recent years. Brain death confirmation plays an important role in the clinical routine concerning a possible organ transplantation. In many countries a strictly defined protocol prescribes the required neurological examination and ancillary test criteria. Therefore, many years
A, Haussmann, U, Yilmaz
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The Changes with the New Legislations
Türk Yoğun Bakim Derneği Dergisi, 2023 Organ transplantation is the most important option for the treatment of end-stage diseases. However, there is a large difference between the number of patients on the waiting list and the number of transplants performed.
Murat Bıçakçıoğlu, Ender Gedik
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