Brain stem death certification protocol
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Pediatric death certification.
OBJECTIVE To determine location, manner, and physician certifier of pediatric deaths. DESIGN A descriptive study of death certificate information for all child deaths (aged birth through 17 years) for the years 1995 and 1996. SETTING Urban county of more than 780,000 population. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Field of specialty of physician certifiers, location of death, and category of deaths cer...
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Our understanding of the concept and definition of death has changed over time. The British contribution to the body of knowledge on the diagnosis of brain steam death was the publication by the medical royal colleges (1976) of diagnostic criteria. Most literature and research which explores the knowledge and attitudes of nurses towards the concept of brain stem death is from the USA. Several i...
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Patients with newly found raised blood pressure are known to have lower pressures at subsequent measurements even when not treated. A study was undertaken to determine the extent to which (a) the number offollow-up measurements and (b) the duration of the intervals between them contributed to this fall in pressure. In 42 general practices 110 patients were identified as having for the first tim...
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BACKGROUND Population-based mortality statistics are derived from the information recorded on death certificates. This information is used for many important purposes, such as the development of public health programs and the allocation of health care resources. Although most physicians are confronted with the task of completing death certificates, many do not receive adequate training in this ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal Armed Forces India
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0377-1237
DOI: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2017.04.002