Brain Death
- 17 August 1978
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 299 (7) , 338-344
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197808172990705
Abstract
(First of Two Parts)BRAIN death is widely accepted as a criterion of death in medical, legal and public opinion today. There seems to be a general medical understanding that it is to be used to describe a state of irreversible destruction of virtually the entire brain despite continued cardiac activity. An early paper, for example, suggested that it should be declared when the brain "no longer functions and has no possibility of functioning again."1 A recent study called it "total destruction of the brain."2 In medical practice the term has been restricted to cases with irreversible deep coma and . . .This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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