Aligning the Criterion and Tests for Brain Death
Disturbing cases continue to be published of patients declared brain dead who later were found to have a few intact brain functions. We address the reasons for the mismatch between the whole-brain criterion and brain death tests, and suggest solutions. Many of the cases result from diagnostic errors...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2019
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 635-641 |
Further subjects: | B
Brain Death
B whole brain criterion B brain death determination B brain death tests |
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