Brain Death

• Author : C. Machado
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2007-09-10
• Total pages : 223
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : This text provides an overview of the processes of brain death, exploring the concepts 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 ...

• Author : Calixto Machado,D. Alan Shewmon
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2004-03-31
• Total pages : 288
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Although some decades have passed, there are still worldwide controversies about a concept of human death on neurological grounds. There are also disagreements on the diagnostic criteria for brain death, whether clinical alone or clinical plus ancillary tests. Moreover, some scholars who were strong defenders of a brain-based standard of ...

• Author : David Shabtai
• Publisher : Shoresh
• Release Date : 2012
• Total pages : 417
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Defining the Moment: Understanding Brain Death in Halakhah presents the halakhic approaches to understanding brain death. Modern halakhists are indeed split on whether brain death qualifies as death, with many rejecting the notion and others embracing it as meaningful. Answering this question is of life and death importance, since organs ...

• Author : M. Potts,P.A. Byrne,R.G. Nilges
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2006-04-11
• Total pages : 274
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the human person. Eleven chapters by physicians, philosophers, and theologians present the case against brain-based criteria for human death. Each author believes that ...

• Author : David Lamb
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1996
• Total pages : 120
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Read online Death Brain Death and Ethics written by David Lamb, published by which was released on 1996. Download full Death Brain Death and Ethics Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
• Publisher : Elsevier Inc. Chapters
• Release Date : 2014-01-09
• Total pages : 472
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : The diagnosis of brain death should be based on a simple premise. If every possible confounder has been excluded and all possible treatments have been tried or considered, irreversible loss of brain function is clinically recognized as the absence of brainstem reflexes, verified apnea, loss of vascular tone, invariant heart ...

• Author : D. Scott Henderson
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release Date : 2011-08-08
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Since its inception in 1968, the brain-death criterion for human death has enjoyed the status of one of the few relatively well-settled issues in bioethics. However, over the last fifteen years or so, a growing number of experts in medicine, philosophy, and religion have come to regard brain death as an ...

• Author : J. Kiffin Penry
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1972
• Total pages : 30
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Read online Brain Death written by J. Kiffin Penry, published by which was released on 1972. Download full Brain Death Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1981
• Total pages : 203
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Read online The NINCDS Collaborative Study of Brain Death written by National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, published by which was released on 1981. Download full The NINCDS Collaborative Study of Brain Death Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Fenella J. Kirkham,Stephen Ashwal
• Publisher : Elsevier Inc. Chapters
• Release Date : 2013-04-24
• Total pages : 892
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Coma must persist for at least 1 hour to distinguish it from transient unconsciousness. Traumatic and nontraumatic coma are common problems in pediatric practice with high mortality and morbidity. Emergency neuroimaging is worthwhile even when etiology is known, as treatable complications, such as venous sinus thrombosis, as well as extradural and ...

• Author : Gary Belkin
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2014-01-29
• Total pages : 208
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of ...

• Author : Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2017-05-11
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Your purchase of the print version of Brain Death includes access to videos available via Oxford Medicine Online. By activating your unique access code, you can discover these videos, and use them for teaching and training purposes. Brain Death provides a practical, comprehensive, clinical resource for practitioners seeing patients with ...

• Author : Jon Steinberg
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1980
• Total pages : 26
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : Read online Brain Death written by Jon Steinberg, published by which was released on 1980. Download full Brain Death Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Douglas N. Walton
• Publisher : West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University
• Release Date : 1980
• Total pages : 95
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : The traditional equation of the death of a person with irreversible cessation of cardio respiratory function -- the absence of heartbeat, pulse, or respiration -- is being replaced by modern medicine with a definition of death in terms of irreversible destruction of function-brain death. In this book, the author thoughtfully ...

• Author : Reinhold A. Frowein,Mario Brock,Margareta Klinger
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2012-12-06
• Total pages : 369
• ISBN : 0387389776

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Summary : The 17th volume of the "Advances in Neurosurgery" contains a selection of the scientific reports of the 39th annual meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery, which was held in Cologne from May 8-11, 1988. The first section deals in particular with the long-term results of severe head injuries, as well ...