Brain death models: Solutions in search of problems

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 595-596

  Latronico, Nicola ^a   Zamperetti, Nereo ^b   Rasulo, Frank A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

brain death; cerebral circulatory arrest; computed tomography angiography organ dysfunction; kidney

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; PURINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

APOPTOSIS; BALLOON CATHETER; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 79952161005     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31820a85cf     Document Type: Editorial

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