Performing the Brain Death Examination and the Declaration of Pediatric Brain Death

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Neuronal injury and death following focal mild brain injury: The role of network excitability and seizure

Objective(s): While traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a predisposing factor for development of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), the occurrence of seizures following brain trauma can infuriate adverse consequences of brain injury. However, the effect of seizures in epileptogenesis after mild TBI cannot yet be accurately confirmed. This study was designed to investigate the ...

The study of brain death in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in Iran from 2003 to 2013

Background and aims: There are different causes for brain death including head trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and intracranial space-occupying lesions. The present study was aimed to determine the causes of brain death in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari province due to high turnover of trauma in this area during 2003 to 2013...

Brain death, the pediatric patient, and the nurse.

The term "brain death" has ties to medical, legal, ethical, and philosophical discourse, and is therefore a complicated and potentially ambiguous term. Some state that with brain death a person no longer has a "master regulating" organ integrating his or her organism as a whole, and the proponents of this view equate this loss of integration with clinical death. Others believe this is not a ten...

Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State The Concept of Brain Death and its Appeal