Difficulties in assessing brain death in a case of benzodiazepine poisoning with persistent cerebral blood flow

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 503-505

  Marrache, Frédéric ^a   Mégarbane, Bruno ^b   Pirnay, Stéphane ^c   Rhaoui, Abdel ^a   Thuong, Marie ^a  

^a DELAFONTAINE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Toxicologie   (France)

Author keywords

Acute poisoning; Benzodiazepine; Brain death; Cerebral angiography; Cerebral blood flow; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BROMAZEPAM; FLUMAZENIL; ZOPICLONE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEATH; COMA; CRANIOTOMY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SUICIDE; TABLET;

ADULT; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; BRAIN DEATH; BROMAZEPAM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; POISONING;

EID: 8144223107     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0960327104ht478cr     Document Type: Article

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