Confounding factors in diagnosing brain death: A case report

BMC Neurology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Burns, Jeffrey M ^a   Login, Ivan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; AMLODIPINE; ATROPINE; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; GLIPIZIDE; LEVOTHYROXINE; LISINOPRIL; METOPROLOL; OMEPRAZOLE; PAROXETINE; PREDNISONE; SIMVASTATIN; TECHNETIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; APNEA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTOXICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHICS; FATALITY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPHARMACY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESUSCITATION; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN DEATH; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPHARMACY; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0041492442     PISSN: 14712377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-2-5     Document Type: Article

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