Book Review: Death Before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death
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Brain death or brain dying?
For the past 50 years, the medical profession has understood ‘‘brain death’’ to represent the endpoint of a neuropathologic vicious cycle. An initial major brain injury sets off a mutually exacerbating cascade of cerebral edema, increased intracranial pressure, and decreased cerebral blood flow, which advances beyond some point-of-no-return to a state of no cerebral blood flow and total brain i...
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I On the Fear of Death .................. II Attitudes Toward Death and Dying .................. III First Stage: Denial and Isolation .................. IV Second Stage: Anger .................. V Third Stage: Bargaining .................. VI Fourth Stage: Depression .................. VII Fifth Stage: Acceptance .................. VIII Hope .................. IX The Patient's Family ............
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متن کاملDeath, Dying and near Death Experience
Psychology of deaths due to acute medical emergencies is under-researched. Most studies till now have concentrated on extended-death situations like malignancy. This open pilot study of twenty five patients examines the psychological state of patients during a life threatening acute medical illness (Group A, ten patients) and of those who survive such an experience (Group B, fifteen patients). ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Linacre Quarterly
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0024-3639,2050-8549
DOI: 10.1177/0024363918761710