Current controversies in brain death determination
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Controversies in the determination of death.
Letter 1 Editor—Gardiner and colleagues say that there is growing medical consensus about the concept of human death, but there is substantial evidence to the contrary and even frank admission that the redefinitions of death invented for organ transplant purposes are no more than legal fictions. Smith recognizes the long-term untenability of the UK ‘brain stem death’ basis for death certificati...
متن کاملRadionuclide studies in the determination of brain death: criteria, concepts, and controversies.
Forty years after the publication of a landmark paper by the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School, the general concept of brain death has achieved widespread acceptance. In the United States, irreversible dysfunction of the brain and brainstem are required for the diagnosis of brain death. Although primarily based on clinical evaluation, confirmatory examinations, including radionucli...
متن کاملControversies in the determination of death: perspectives from Switzerland.
In 1968, an Ad Hoc committee at the Harvard Medical School advanced new criteria for determining death. It proposed that patients in irreversible coma with no discernible central nervous system activity were actually dead. The committee paved the way for the "whole brain" definition of death, which has reached broad public acceptance and legal enactment in many countries. Despite this, the phil...
متن کاملUpdates in the determination of brain death.
The concept of brain death must be accurately determined and defined, especially in the light of the latest legislation on brain blood flow measurements.
متن کاملSimulation-based training in brain death determination.
BACKGROUND Despite straightforward guidelines on brain death determination by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), substantial practice variability exists internationally, between states, and among institutions. We created a simulation-based training course on proper determination based on the AAN practice parameters to address and assess knowledge and practice gaps at our institution. ME...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Neurology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1759-4758,1759-4766
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2017.72