Clinical usefulness of transcranial Doppler in diagnosis of brain death;Utilidad clínica del Doppler transcraneal en el diagnóstico de muerte encefálica

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 407-412

  Fages, Eva ^a,b   Tembl, José Ignacio ^a   Fortea, Gerardo ^a   López, Pablo ^a   Lago, Aida ^a   Vicente, José Luis ^a   Vilchez, Juan Jesús ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b San Antonio Catholic University   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain Death; Coma; Oscillating flow; Systolic spikes; Transcranial Doppler; Transitory pattern

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMA; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SAFETY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 2442437015     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13059538     Document Type: Article

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