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Continuum, 2015
Major complexities exist in the assessment of a patient with a catastrophic neurologic disorder that might have progressed to loss of all brain function. The determination of brain death and initial management of the potential organ donor is one of the major key tasks of the neurologist.
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Major complexities exist in the assessment of a patient with a catastrophic neurologic disorder that might have progressed to loss of all brain function. The determination of brain death and initial management of the potential organ donor is one of the major key tasks of the neurologist.
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Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1984
Sir.—The need to establish brain death criteria in the pediatric age group was addressed by Rowland et al1in theAJDC. Neurologists generally agree about the pure clinical criteria in the diagnosis of brain death—deep coma with absent brain-stem reflexes, including apnea.
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Sir.—The need to establish brain death criteria in the pediatric age group was addressed by Rowland et al1in theAJDC. Neurologists generally agree about the pure clinical criteria in the diagnosis of brain death—deep coma with absent brain-stem reflexes, including apnea.
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Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, 2013
In the United States, each year 1% to 2% of deaths are brain deaths. Considerable variation in the practice of determining brain death still remains, despite the publication of practice parameters in 1995 and an evidence-based guideline update in 2010.
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In the United States, each year 1% to 2% of deaths are brain deaths. Considerable variation in the practice of determining brain death still remains, despite the publication of practice parameters in 1995 and an evidence-based guideline update in 2010.
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American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2004
Pregnancy is a biological process that usually takes forty weeks. The more advanced pregnancy is in terms of gestational age, the higher the chances that the fetus would survive in case of a premature and unnatural delivery. Hence, when a pregnant woman is struck by brain death, the fetus’ chances of survival are seriously and immediately threatened ...
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Pregnancy is a biological process that usually takes forty weeks. The more advanced pregnancy is in terms of gestational age, the higher the chances that the fetus would survive in case of a premature and unnatural delivery. Hence, when a pregnant woman is struck by brain death, the fetus’ chances of survival are seriously and immediately threatened ...
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The American Journal of Bioethics, 2014
The publicity surrounding the recent McMath and Muñoz cases has rekindled public interest in brain death: the familiar term for human death determination by showing the irreversible cessation of clinical brain functions. The concept of brain death was developed decades ago to permit withdrawal of therapy in hopeless cases and to permit organ donation ...
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The publicity surrounding the recent McMath and Muñoz cases has rekindled public interest in brain death: the familiar term for human death determination by showing the irreversible cessation of clinical brain functions. The concept of brain death was developed decades ago to permit withdrawal of therapy in hopeless cases and to permit organ donation ...
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Neurology India, 2018
Until six decades ago, death was considered to be a specific point in time, referring to the moment at which life ends. With the availability of ventilators, even determining when death has occurred is becoming difficult, as cessation of life functions is often not simultaneous across organ systems. With increasing accessibility to intensive care units
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Until six decades ago, death was considered to be a specific point in time, referring to the moment at which life ends. With the availability of ventilators, even determining when death has occurred is becoming difficult, as cessation of life functions is often not simultaneous across organ systems. With increasing accessibility to intensive care units
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Brain and other central nervous system tumor statistics, 2021
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021Kimberly D Miller +2 more
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