brain death
Absence of Doppler signal in transcranial color-coded ultrasonography may be confirmatory for brain death: A case report
... Utility of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) in confirmation of brain death is well established. The reported sensitivity of TCD for diagnosing brain death is about 90% at average, ...
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Turkish Neurological Society - Diagnostic Guidelines for Brain Death*
... medical death condition that pertains this law is decided by a committee of 4 physicians including a cardiologist, a neurologist, a neurosurgeon and an anesthesiologist and reanimation specialist, using the ...
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Implications of ischemic penumbra for the diagnosis of brain death
... of brain blood flow (BBF) in three hypothetical cases of increased intracranial pressure (ICP) w ith absent su- praspinal synaptic activity (coma and absent cephalic reflexes) for at least 48 h prior to cardiac ...
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Quality of Care of Nursing from Brain Death Patient in ICU Wards
... of brain death and asking for organ donations as well as their role as coordinators in the process of organ donation ...of brain death, the families can more easily accept their patients' ...
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Brazilian guidelines for the application of transcranial ultrasound as a diagnostic test for the confirmation of brain death
... Neurosonological studies, specifically transcranial Doppler (TCD) and transcranial color-coded duplex (TCCD), have high level of specificity and sensitivity and they are used as complementary tests for the diagnosis of ...
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University knowledge and opinion on donation and organ transplantation / Conhecimento e opinião de universitários sobre doação e transplantes de órgãos
... We found that college students have knowledge, although some demands for information can still be met by sharing knowledge, especially by health professionals. We also observed that specific knowledge on the process of ...
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Rev. bras. ter. intensiva vol.24 número4 en a02v24n4
... present an interesting study that illustrates the importance of standardizing care in critical care units, even after the diagnosis of brain death, to maintain the viability of organs for transplantation. ...
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PDF EN Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia 2 8 english
... of brain death that includes a sudden rise in intracranial pressure, which differs from what is often found in patients evolving to brain death, in whom intracranial pressure rises at a slower ...
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J. Pediatr. (Rio J.) vol.83 número2 en v83n2a03
... of death to the removal of support tech- nology is of particular ...after brain ‘death’ is ...of death and the use of human organs for transplanta- tion in Brazilian society, and within the ...
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Rev. bras. ter. intensiva vol.23 número4 en a05v23n4
... Patients diagnosed with brain death frequently experience hydroelectrolytic disorders, particularly hypernatremia. Hypernatremia may be a predictor of primary liver graft failure. he exact mechanism for ...
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Rev. bras. ter. intensiva vol.23 número3 en v23n3a04
... Many factors may impact respiratory outcomes, particularly hydrostatic pulmonary edema (secondary to sympathetic storming with eventual left ventricular overload) and the underlying disease inlammatory process (head ...
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J. bras. pneumol. vol.39 número2
... of brain death that includes a sudden rise in intracranial pressure, which differs from what is often found in patients evolving to brain death, in whom intracranial pressure rises at a slower ...
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Rev. Bioét. vol.24 número2
... Organ donaion is perceived by society as a solidary act through which there is the possibility of supplying a part of the body to help care for people who cannot ind other ways of treatment, favoring ther life expectancy ...
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... depends on the knowledge of the population on the subject. he main individual responsible for transmitting this knowledge is the doctor, who often does not participate in the donation process. hus, the poor knowledge of ...
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Heart donations and transplants in the state of Paraná
... of brain death, in which relatives do not understand how a body with vital signs may be in a state of irreversibly dead; the religious interpretation of the family; the deceased person no having declared in ...
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A enfermagem e o paciente em morte encefálica na UTI
... Organ donation is perceived by society as a solidary act through which there is the possibility of supplying a part of the body to help care for people who cannot find other ways of treatment, favoring ther life ...
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Interface (Botucatu) vol.21 número62
... of brain death of pregnant women in different countries, that were published in the press, aiming to reflect about the decision making process on the prolongation of somatic support of vital functions of ...
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... Figure 3 - Two repeated studies over time in a patient with clinical brain death. In the top row, the left central sonogram and the center belong to the first study; the other sonograms belong to the second ...
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Rev. esc. enferm. USP vol.47 número1 en a33v47n1
... The understanding of the process and the adequate implementation of its stages lead to safer and higher quality organs, potentiate brain death diagnosis and donor organ procurement, and allow for expedited ...
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Equipe de enfermagem na doação de órgãos: revisão integrativa de literatura
... 2018, 41% of the interviewed families differed from the potential donor’s desire and did not authorize organ donation. This scenario justifies and supports discussions about best practices to reduce the non- realization ...
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