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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Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2019
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Año: 2019, Volumen: 28, Número: 4, Páginas: 635-641 |
Otras palabras clave: | B
Brain Death
B whole brain criterion B brain death determination B brain death tests |
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Sumario: | 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 in brain death determination. Others probably result from a tiny amount of residual blood flow to the brain despite intracranial circulatory arrest. Strategies to lessen the mismatch include improving brain death determination training for physicians, mandating a test showing complete intracranial circulatory arrest, or revising the whole-brain criterion. |
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ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180119000574 |