Apparently Recovering Breath Function in Brain Death

Brain death (BD) is that someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine. After brain function had ceased, somatic function being sustained by mechanical ventilation tbr a long time. Further treatment is inappropriate in a dead patient. Hence, in many c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Chinese medical journal 2015-11, Vol.128 (21), p.2969-2971
Hauptverfasser: Ding, Ze-Yu, Zhang, Qian, Wu, Jian-Wei, Yang, Zhong-Hua, Zhao, Xing-Quan
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Brain death (BD) is that someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine. After brain function had ceased, somatic function being sustained by mechanical ventilation tbr a long time. Further treatment is inappropriate in a dead patient. Hence, in many countries, the law provides that treatment can be legitimately removed from a patient who was diagnosed BD and the donation of organs for transplantation can start.
ISSN:0366-6999
2542-5641
DOI:10.4103/0366-6999.168079