TY - JOUR
T1 - Brain death in children
T2 - Part II
AU - Ashwal, Stephen
AU - Schneider, Sanford
N1 - The determination of brain death in children has increasingly relied on a variety of neurodiagnostic studies to confirm the clinical diagnosis. This s...
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - The determination of brain death in children has increasingly relied on a variety of neurodiagnostic studies to confirm the clinical diagnosis. This second article on brain death reviews the relevant pediatric electroencephalographic, evoked response, and cerebral blood flow studies, provides our recommendations and protocol for the determination of brain death in children, and considers some of the problems associated with physiologic stabilization of the brain dead child who is considered for organ donation.
AB - The determination of brain death in children has increasingly relied on a variety of neurodiagnostic studies to confirm the clinical diagnosis. This second article on brain death reviews the relevant pediatric electroencephalographic, evoked response, and cerebral blood flow studies, provides our recommendations and protocol for the determination of brain death in children, and considers some of the problems associated with physiologic stabilization of the brain dead child who is considered for organ donation.
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U2 - 10.1016/0887-8994(87)90030-0
DO - 10.1016/0887-8994(87)90030-0
M3 - Review article
C2 - 3334011
SN - 0887-8994
VL - 3
SP - 69
EP - 77
JO - Pediatric Neurology
JF - Pediatric Neurology
IS - 2
ER -