Somatic survival and organ donation among brain-dead patients in the state of Qatar
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Somatic survival and organ donation among brain-dead patients in the state of Qatar
BACKGROUND The Qatari law, as in many other countries, uses brain death as the main criteria for organ donation and cessation of medical support. By contrast, most of the public in Qatar do not agree with the limitation or withdrawal of medical care until the time of cardiac death. The current study aims to examine the duration of somatic survival after brain death, organ donation rate in brain...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Neurology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1471-2377
DOI: 10.1186/s12883-016-0719-8