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Including new sections on recent concepts of death, organ donation and the international status of brain death, this volume covers topics such as diagnosis, declaration of death, ethical issues, the history of "brain death", managing organ donors and the position overseas.
| ISBN | 0727902458 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780727902450
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 240 | | Publisher | BMJ Publishing Group | | Published in | London | | Imprint | BMJ Books | | Series title | ABC S. | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 297 | | Publication date | 02 Jan 1996 | | Width (mm) | 212 | | DEWEY | 616.8 | | Spine width (mm) | 3 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate | | Pages | 55 | |
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| | | Preface to the first edition | | | | | | Preface to the second edition | | | | 1 | | Reappraising death | | 1 | | 2 | | From brain death to brainstem death | | 8 | | 3 | | Diagnosis of brainstem death - 1 | | 13 | | 4 | | Diagnosis of brainstem death - 2 | | 17 | | 5 | | Pitfalls and safeguards | | 21 | | 6 | | The declaration of death | | 26 | | 7 | | The prognostic significance of a dead brainstem | | 28 | | 8 | | Cerebral blood flow, electroencephalography, and other diagnostic methods | | 34 | | 9 | | The position in the United States and elsewhere | | 40 | | 10 | | The organ donor and donor maintenance | | 45 | | | | Index | | 51 |
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