Book Details

Brain Death

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-0-387-38977-6

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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.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Machado, Reappraisal, brain, certification, children, death, diagnosis, ethical issues, organ, organ transplantation, patients, transplantation