Anoxia, coma, and brain death

Niedermeyer's Electroencephalography: Basic Principles, Clinical Applications, and Related Fields: Sixth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 435-456

  Kaplan, Peter W ^a   Bauer, Gerhard ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

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