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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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Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole [PDF]
, 2021 The biophilosophic justification for the idea that “brain death” is death needs to support two claims: that what dies in human death is a human organism, not merely a psychological entity distinct from it; that total brain failure signifies the end of ...
Omelianchuk, Adam
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Quality of life (QoL) as predictive mediator variable for survival in patients with intracerebral neoplasma during radiotherapy [PDF]
, 2003 Background: The prognosis for patients with malignant astrocytoma or brain metastases is often fatal despite intensive therapy. Therefore we wished to elucidate whether the quality of life (QoL) is a determinant of overall survival (OAS).
Aydemir, U. +6 more
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, 1977 Until recently determination of death was simple. The heart stopped. There was no pulse, no recordable blood pressure, and no heart sounds. There was no breathing. Now, methods of cardiopulmonary resuscitation are common knowledge, both to the layman and
Suter, Cary
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, 2012 Sections on Questions of death... and life; Defining death; A brief history of brain death; Clinical criticisms of brain death; Theological reflections of brainstem ...
Stammers, Trevor
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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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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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Biological Principles in Self-Organization of Young Brain - Viewed from Kohonen Model [PDF]
, 2006 Variants of the Kohonen model are proposed to study biological principles of self-organization in a model of young brain. We suggest a function to measure aquired knowledge and use it to auto-adapt the topology of neuronal connectivity, yielding ...
A. De Angelis +7 more
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The Response of Cerebral Cortex to Haemorrhagic Damage: Experimental Evidence from a Penetrating Injury Model [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding the response of the brain to haemorrhagic damage is important in haemorrhagic stroke and increasingly in the understanding the cerebral degeneration and dementia that follow head trauma and head-impact sports.
Johnstone, Daniel M. +4 more
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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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