TY  - BOOK
AU  - Machado,Calixto
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Brain Death: A Reappraisal 
SN  - 9780387389776
U1  - 612.8 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York
KW  - MEDICINE
KW  - NEUROSCIENCES
KW  - BIOMEDICINE
N1  - The Concept of Brain Death Did Not Evolve to Benefit Organ Transplants -- The First Organ Transplant from a Brain-Dead Donor -- Conceptual Approach to Human Death on Neurological Grounds -- Clinical Diagnosis of Brain Death -- Ancillary Tests in Brain Death Confirmation -- Brain Death in Children -- Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States and Other Disturbances of Consciousness -- Brain Death and Organ Transplantation: Ethical Issues -- Legal Considerations on the Determination and Certification of Human Death
N2  - This text is intended to provide an overview of brain death. The topics explored in this book are the concept and historical approach of human death, clinical examinations of brain-dead patients, ancillary tests in coma and brain death, bioethical discussions of brain death and its relationship with some consciousness disturbances, and the legal considerations of human death
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38977-6
ER  -