Total brain failure: A new contribution by the President's Council on Bioethics to the definition of death according to the neurological standard

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1305-1307

  Zamperetti, Nereo ^a   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^b  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BREATHING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCULATION; DEATH; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; STANDARD; VALIDITY;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; BIOETHICS; BRAIN DEATH; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 67649342614     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1499-z     Document Type: Note

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