Practice variability in brain death determination

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 2009-2014

  Shappell, Claire N ^a   Frank, Jeffrey I ^b   Husari, Khalil ^b   Sanchez, Matthew ^a   Goldenberg, Fernando ^b   Ardelt, Agnieszka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APNEA; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORE TEMPERATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORGAN DONOR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BRAIN DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84892418257     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000436938.70528.4a     Document Type: Article

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