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This concise and accessible guide covers the important issues concerniong brain stem death in a way that is relevant for practising clinicians. Thoroughly revised and updated with current recommendations, and new sections on recent concepts of death, organ donation, and the international status of brain death.
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A dead brain in a body with a heart that is still beating is one of the more macabre products of modern technology. The ABC of Brain Stem Death gives unique guidance on this subject. Clear, concise, and accessible, it covers the important issues concerning brainstem death in a way that is relavant for practising clinicians.
This concise and accessible guide covers the important issues concerniong brain stem death in a way that is relevant for practising clinicians. Thoroughly revised and updated with current recommendations, and new sections on recent concepts of death, organ donation, and the international status of brain death.
From the Back Cover
A dead brain in a body with a heart that is still beating is one of the more macabre products of modern technology. The ABC of Brain Stem Death gives unique guidance on this subject. Clear, concise, and accessible, it covers the important issues concerning brainstem death in a way that is relavant for practising clinicians.
This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in line with current recommendations. It has new sections on recent concepts of death, organ donation, and the international status of brain death.
Topics covered include:
- Diagnosis
- Declaration of death
- Ethical issues
- The history of "brain death"
- Managing organ donors
- The position overseas
Written by authors with unrivalled knowledge of the subject, this book provides practical and relevant information for physicians, surgeons, nurses, students, and anyone else interested in this field.
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A dead brain in a body with a still beating heart is one of the more macabre products of modern technology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dead brainstem, brainstem areflexia, apnoeic coma, irremediable structural brain damage, brainstem death, absent brainstem reflexes, disconnection test, developed asystole, structural brain disease, isoelectric electroencephalogram, whole brain death, cardiac prognosis, brainstem function, cerebral death, electrocerebral silence, electroencephalographic activity, brainstem encephalitis, irreversible cessation, brainstem auditory evoked potentials, caloric testing, defining death, brainstem dysfunction, drug intoxication, irreversible loss, irreversible coma Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Kingdom, United States, Acad Sci, Acta Neurochir, Ann Neurol, Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophystol, Intensive Care Medicine, New York, Transactions of the American Neurological Association New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
A dead brain in a body with a still beating heart is one of the more macabre products of modern technology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dead brainstem, brainstem areflexia, apnoeic coma, irremediable structural brain damage, brainstem death, absent brainstem reflexes, disconnection test, developed asystole, structural brain disease, isoelectric electroencephalogram, whole brain death, cardiac prognosis, brainstem function, cerebral death, electrocerebral silence, electroencephalographic activity, brainstem encephalitis, irreversible cessation, brainstem auditory evoked potentials, caloric testing, defining death, brainstem dysfunction, drug intoxication, irreversible loss, irreversible coma Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Kingdom, United States, Acad Sci, Acta Neurochir, Ann Neurol, Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophystol, Intensive Care Medicine, New York, Transactions of the American Neurological Association New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 3
books:
- Intensive Care: A Concise Textbook by Charles J. Hinds on page 50
- Intensive Care Medicine (Fundamentals of Anaesthesia and Acute Medicine) by Julian Bion on page 39
- Head Injury by P. Braakman on page 44
