Understanding Brain Death

This Viewpoint examines the need to reconcile discrepancies between the definition of brain death in the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act and current diagnostic standards in the US given legal challenges arising from the differences.

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Veröffentlicht in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2020-06, Vol.323 (21), p.2139-2140
Hauptverfasser:	Truog, Robert D, Paquette, Erin Talati, Tasker, Robert C
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Brain Brain death Death Diagnostic systems General & Internal Medicine Life Sciences & Biomedicine Medicine, General & Internal Mortality Science & Technology
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Zusammenfassung:	This Viewpoint examines the need to reconcile discrepancies between the definition of brain death in the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act and current diagnostic standards in the US given legal challenges arising from the differences.
ISSN:	0098-7484 1538-3598
DOI:	10.1001/jama.2020.3593