Consensus opinion on diagnosing brain death - Guidelines for use of confirmatory tests: Report of Croatian Neurovascular Society and University Department of Neurology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Reference Center for Neurovascular Disorders of the Ministry of Health of Republic of Croatia

Acta Clinica Croatica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-79

  Demarin, Vida ^a   Lovrenčić Huzjan, Arijana ^a,b   Vargek Solter, Vesna ^a   Vuković, Vlasta ^a   Miškov, Snježana ^a   Mikula, Ivan ^a   Perić, Mladen ^b   Gopčević, Aleksandar ^b   Kusić, Zvonko ^b   Balenović, Antonija ^b   Klanfar, Zoran ^b   Bušić, Mirela ^c  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^c Ministry of Health   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Brain death diagnosis'; Brain death legislation and jurisprudence; Brain death ultrasonography; Croatia; Guidelines; Predictive value of tests; Severity of illness

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ANGIOGRAPHY; APNEA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN STEM; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG INTOXICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MICROCLIMATE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN DONOR; REFLEX; SCINTIGRAPHY;

EID: 21044459319     PISSN: 03539466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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