Brain Death A Reappraisal /

• Main Author: Machado, Calixto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.