Irreversibility: Cardiac death versus brain death

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 199-202

  Machado, Calixto ^a   Korein, Julius ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROLOGÍA Y NEUROCIRUGÍA   (Cuba)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain death; Cardiac death; Dead donor rule; Death; Irreversibility; Organ transplants

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; ASYSTOLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEATH; HEART BEAT; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL ETHICS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 75649138307     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.2009.20.3-4.199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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