Death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops.
Complete and irreversible loss of brain function.
1However, it does not exacerbate the cardiac dysfunction induced by brain death.
2Myocardial beta-receptor density did not change after the induction of brain death.
3A second cause is nonrecognition or delay in determination of brain death.
4Methods: A canine model of brain death and orthotopic cardiac transplantation was used.
5Methods: A simulated brain death scenario was designed to incorporate numerous potential confounders.
6Worldwide, the majority of heart transplant organs are from donation after brain death.
7You're correct, he doesn't meet the medical criteria for brain death.
8Outcomes evaluated were mortality, score on the Glasgow outcome scale, or brain death.
9The child's showed the traditional flat lines of clinical brain death.
10And how fast did brain death occur after they've stopped breathing?
11The definition of brain death is a legal definition of death.
12Well, donation after cardiac death is different from organ donation after brain death.
13The majority of donated lungs come from donors following brain death (BD).
14Simulation training improved clinical performance and trainee confidence in the evaluation of brain death.
15The concept of brain death has not been accepted by the majority of Chinese.
16Outcome was defined as deterioration to brain death or not.
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