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Application Dilemmas and Adjustments of Inability to Obtain Close Relatives' Opinions in Rescuing Critically Ill Patients

open access: yesYixue yu zhexue
Article 1220 of the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China establishes an exception for emergency treatment. Judicial interpretation Article 18 takes "inability to obtain the patient's opinion" as a prerequisite for application, and categorizes ...
Xirong XU, Wei WANG
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Surgical consent and the importance of a substitute decision-maker: A case study

open access: yesJournal of Perioperative Nursing, 2017
At law, all individuals are presumed to have the legal capacity to provide consent or refusal of treatment unless there are clinical indications of cognitive impairment.
Julia Gilbert, Brigid Gillespie
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Making research ethics work for global health: towards a more agile and collaborative approach

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2023
In this reflective essay, we seek to engage in a constructive dialogue with scholars across medicine, public health and anthropology on research ethics practices.
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Bregje de Kok
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Presumed Consent for Transplantation: A Dead Issue After Alder Hey?

open access: yes, 2003
In the wake of scandals about the unauthorised retention of organs following postmortem examination, the issue of valid consent (or the lack of it) has returned to the forefront.
English, V., Sommerville, A.
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White Matter Hyperintensity Burden and Short‐Interval Change Associated With Sleep Apnoea in the UK Biobank

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Purpose White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are a core neuroimaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). Sleep apnoea (SA) is a recognized vascular risk factor, but its associations with regional WMH burden, short‐interval WMH change and cognitive performance in population‐based cohorts remain incompletely defined. We
Peng Cheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deceased organ donation of foreign nationals in India

open access: yesIndian Journal of Transplantation, 2019
Inward foreign tourism in India is on the rise and the tourists are equally at risk of fatal road accidents and stroke leading to brain death. This provides an opportunity for organ donation; however, no guidelines are available on how to proceed in such
Pallavi Kumar   +9 more
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Early Clinical, Imaging, and Pathological Characteristics of SRPK3/TTN‐Digenic Myopathy

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy was recently established as a skeletal muscle myopathy caused by digenic inheritance. This study characterizes the early clinical presentation of SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy in one previously reported and seven newly identified pediatric patients.
Rotem Orbach   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le don d’outre-tombe

open access: yesSocio-anthropologie
This article examines what effects the interview known as the ‘donation conversation’ may have on relatives regarding the symbolic status of the donor patient.
Carmen Meslier
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White Matter Microstructural Abnormalities in Neonatal Onset Genetic Epilepsy

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Recent evidence indicates that epilepsy is associated with abnormal white matter. If seizures alter white matter, then the impact upon network function, epileptogenesis, and cognition could be pronounced in neonates undergoing rapid developmental myelination. Neonates with epilepsy due to nonstructural genetic causes provide a unique
Amanda G. Sandoval Karamian   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

White Matter and Perivascular Imaging Changes in Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Peak‐width of skeletonized mean diffusivity (PSMD) and diffusion tensor imaging–analysis along the perivascular space (DTI‐ALPS), reflecting white matter integrity and glymphatic function, are altered in Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Debina Laishram   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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