منابع مشابه
Diagnosis and management of brain death.
Finland was the first country in which brain death was legally accepted. Since 1975, 37 cases of brain death had been recorded in a university hospital in Finland, and these were reviewed. The cause for brain death was intracranial bleeding in 32 cases, other cerebrovascular disorder in two, and intracranial neoplasm in three. In 21 brain death was diagnosed clinically. In 16 cases confirmatory...
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Despite a widespread acceptance of organ transplant the world over, there is still a lack of conceptual clarity about brain death in severely injured cases. The use of terminology “brain death instead of death creates confusion in the mind of few people that it is only the brain and not the patient that is dead. Health professionals have personal concepts of death that vary widely. In one of th...
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Brain death (BD) should be understood as the ultimate clinical expression of a brain catastrophe characterized by a complete and irreversible neurological stoppage, recognized by irreversible coma, absent brainstem reflexes, and apnea. The most common pattern is manifested by an elevation of intracranial pressure to a point beyond the mean arterial pressure, and hence cerebral perfusion pressur...
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All topics are updated as new evidence becomes available and our peer review process is complete. Disclosures INTRODUCTION — Death is an irreversible, biological event that consists of permanent cessation of the critical functions of the organism as a whole [1]. This concept allows for survival of tissues in isolation, but it requires the loss of integrated function of various organ systems. De...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.6162.525