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RECORD NUMBER: 46 OF 358Main Title | Brain Death A Reappraisal / [electronic resource] : | ||||
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Type | EBOOK | ||||
Author | Machado, Calixto. | ||||
Publisher | Springer New York, | ||||
Year Published | 2007 | ||||
Call Number | RC321-580 | ||||
ISBN | 9780387389776 | ||||
Subjects | Medicine ; Neurosciences | ||||
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Collation | VIII, 223 p. online resource. | ||||
Notes | Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only |
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Contents Notes | The Concept of Brain Death Did Not Evolve to Benefit Organ Transplants -- The First Organ Transplant from a Brain-Dead Donor -- Conceptual Approach to Human Death on Neurological Grounds -- Clinical Diagnosis of Brain Death -- Ancillary Tests in Brain Death Confirmation -- Brain Death in Children -- Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States and Other Disturbances of Consciousness -- Brain Death and Organ Transplantation: Ethical Issues -- Legal Considerations on the Determination and Certification of Human Death. This text is intended to provide an overview of brain death. The topics explored in this book are the concept and historical approach of human death, clinical examinations of brain-dead patients, ancillary tests in coma and brain death, bioethical discussions of brain death and its relationship with some consciousness disturbances, and the legal considerations of human death. |