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A survey of American neurologists about brain death: understanding the conceptual basis and diagnostic tests for brain death

BACKGROUND: Neurologists often diagnose brain death (BD) and explain BD to families in the intensive care unit. This study was designed to determine whether neurologists agree with the standard concept of death (irreversible loss of integrative unity of the organism) and understand the state of the...

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Autores principales: Joffe, Ari R, Anton, Natalie R, Duff, Jonathan P, deCaen, Allan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3310851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22339807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2110-5820-2-4