How should testing for apnea be performed in diagnosing brain death?

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 550, Issue , 2004, Pages 169-174

  Lang, Christoph J G ^a   Heckmann, Josef G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APNEA; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN DEATH; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM CARE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS;

EID: 1842554944     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-306-48526-8_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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