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Bench-to-bedside review: When is dead really dead – on the legitimacy of using neurologic criteria to determine death
This review explores the legitimacy of the whole brain death (WBD) criterion. I argue that it does not fulfill the traditional biologic definition of death and is, therefore, an unsound clinical and philosophical criterion for death. I dispute whether the clinical tests used to diagnose WBD are suff...
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BioMed Central
2007
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206442/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17381826 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc5690 |