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Brain death, states of impaired consciousness, and physician-assisted death for end-of-life organ donation and transplantation
In 1968, the Harvard criteria equated irreversible coma and apnea (i.e., brain death) with human death and later, the Uniform Determination of Death Act was enacted permitting organ procurement from heart-beating donors. Since then, clinical studies have defined a spectrum of states of impaired cons...
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Springer Netherlands
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2777223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19437141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-009-9204-0 |