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eeg abnormalities in clinically diagnosed brain death organ donors in iranian tissue bank
brain death is defined as the permanent, irreversible and concurrent loss of all brain and brain stem functions. brain death diagnosis is based on clinical criteria and it is not routine to use paraclinical studies. in some countries, electroencephalogram (eeg) is performed in all patients for the determination of brain death while there is some skepticism in relying on eeg as a confirmatory te...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.316.7131.630