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Brain Death: Compliance, Consequences and Care of the Adult Donor

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Intensive Care Medicine

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Critical care physicians often certify brain death and may continue the care of those patients who become organ donors. This chapter will review recent publications and current practices in these topic areas with the intent of encouraging compliance with established policies for brain death determination and promoting investigations needed to establish evidence-based treatment guidelines for donor care.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, 6431 Fannin Street, MSB 7.154, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

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  1. Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent MD, PhD, FCCM, FCCP (Head) (Head)

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Powner, D.J. (2007). Brain Death: Compliance, Consequences and Care of the Adult Donor. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49518-7_89

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