Evoked potentials in the diagnosis of brain death

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 550, Issue , 2004, Pages 175-187

  Facco, Enrico ^a   Machado, Calixto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO DE NEUROLOGÍA Y NEUROCIRUGÍA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DYING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EUTHANASIA; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEMISPHERE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 1842554934     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-306-48526-8_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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