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Brain Death and the Law: Hard Cases and Legal Challenges.
The Hastings center report, 2018 The determination of death by neurological criteria-"brain death"-has long been legally established as death in all U.S. jurisdictions. Moreover, the consequences of determining brain death have been clear. Except for organ donation and in a few rare and
T. Pope
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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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Neuroscience and Brain Death Controversies: The Elephant in the Room
Journal of religion and health, 2018 The conception and the determination of brain death continue to raise scientific, legal, philosophical, and religious controversies. While both the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral ...
J. Verheijde, M. Rady, M. Potts
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Intensive Care Medicine, 2016 BackgroundThe occurrence of brain death in patients with hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury after resuscitation from cardiac arrest creates opportunities for organ donation. However, its prevalence is currently unknown.MethodsSystematic review.
C. Sandroni +6 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Background: The process of brain death (BD) leads to a pro-inflammatory state of the donor lung, which deteriorates its quality. In an attempt to preserve lung quality, methylprednisolone is widely recommended in donor lung management.
Judith E. Van Zanden +8 more
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American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2016 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Transcranial Doppler is a useful ancillary test for brain death confirmation because it is safe, noninvasive, and done at the bedside. Transcranial Doppler confirms brain death by evaluating cerebral circulatory arrest.
Jason J. Chang +6 more
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Einstein (São Paulo), 2020 Objective To characterize the processes of brain death diagnosis and organ donation in a reference trauma center. Methods Observational and cross-sectional study with patients notified with brain death at a reference trauma center.
Jorge Tadeu Campos Paixão +5 more
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Organ Transplant in Brain- Dead Patients from the Perspective of Jurisprudence [PDF]
پژوهشنامه حقوق اسلامی, 2011 The present article analyzes the issue of removing organs from brain dead patients as a matter of fact and as a matter of law. Giving definitions of life and death, it clarifies the position of brain-dead patients.
ehsan ali akbari, nasrollah shamli
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The labial gene is required to terminate proliferation of identified neuroblasts in postembryonic development of the Drosophila brain [PDF]
, 2012 The developing brain of Drosophila has become a useful model for studying the molecular genetic mechanisms that give rise to the complex neuronal arrays that characterize higher brains in other animals including mammals.
Bello, B. C., Kuert, P. A., Reichert, H.
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Target-derived neurotrophic factors regulate the death of developing forebrain neurons after a change in their trophic requirements [PDF]
, 2001 Many neurons die as the normal brain develops. How this is regulated and whether the mechanism involves neurotrophic molecules from target cells are unknown.
Asavaritikrai, P +3 more
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