Recommendations of the use of transcranial Dooppler to determine the existence of cerebral circulatory arrest as diagnostic support of brain death;Recomendaciones sobre el uso del Doppier transcraneal para determinar la existencia de paro circulatorio cerebral como apoyo diagnóstico de la muerte encefálica

Neurologia

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 441-447

  Calleja, S ^a   Tembl, J I ^b   Segura, Tomás ^c  

^a Hospital Universitario Central   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain death; Diagnosis; Transcranial doppler

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPAIN; SYSTOLE;

BRAIN DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 35448937315     PISSN: 02134853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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