The Neurologist’s View on the Determination of Brain Death*
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It is a great honour to be invited again to a Study Workshop of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the beautiful Casina Pio IV in the Vatican gardens. The first time I was here was in October 1988, participating in the Study Week on the ‘Principles of Design and Operation of the Brain’, organized by the late Sir John Eccles, Nobel laureate (cf. Eccles & Creutzfeldt (eds.), Scripta Varia No. 78). We were dealing with the miracles of the living human brain in particular regarding movement, action and will (Deecke & Lang, 1990), while the topic is now the dying and dead human brain with all the consequences. Above all: is brain death the death of the whole person. What is the most common clinical situation that leads to brain death? It is circulatory arrest. This has a very wide range extending from syncope to brain death.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013