Enigma of apnea test for brain death on ECMO—an ongoing discussion—case study and review of literature

Coma, absent brain stem reflexes, and apnea are considered the neurological criteria of brain death. As membrane oxygenator does almost entire gas exchange in patients with severely diseased lungs who are on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), it is not possible to carry out apnea test in ro...

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Autores principales: Sahu, Manoj Kumar, Vaswani, Prateek, Bipin, Chalattil, Singh, Sarvesh Pal, Hadda, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Singapore 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32904971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12055-020-01008-w

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32904971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12055-020-01008-w

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