Outcomes manager: Brain death criteria in the pediatric patient

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 14-21

  Dorr, Peggy ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

APNEA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSING; ORGAN DONOR; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESPONSIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 0031003089     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002727-199705000-00003     Document Type: Article

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