The Diagnosis of Brain Death

To the Editor: At the beginning of his article on brain death (April 19 issue), 1 Dr. Wijdicks states, “Physicians, health care workers, members of the clergy, and laypeople throughout the world have accepted fully that a person is dead when his or her brain is dead.” This statement is dogma, not fa...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2001-08, Vol.345 (8), p.616-618
Hauptverfasser:	Cranston, Robert E, Rockoff, Mark A, Thompson, John E, Larson, Merlin D, Gray, Andrew T, Truog, Robert D, Robinson, Walter M, Broyde, Michael J, Wijdicks, Eelco F.M, Capron, Alexander Morgan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Advance Directives Attitude to Death Bioethics Brain Death - diagnosis Brain Death - legislation & jurisprudence Humans United States
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