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Brain death, also commonly referred to as death by neurologic criteria, has been considered a legal definition of death for decades. Its determination involves many considerations and subtleties. In this review, we discuss the philosophy and history of b
and medulla. These areas must be evaluated to ensure that they meet the strict criteria for brain death. Although individual laboratories may use nonspecific brain tracers such as99mTc-DTPA and99mTc-pertechnetate, these are less commonly used than99mTc-ECD or99mTc-HMPAO for assessment of cerebral ...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States. Primary brain injury occurs at the scene of the trauma when kinetic energy disrupts brain tissue. Secondary brain injury begins hours after the trauma and is caused by neurochemical, metabolic, and cel...
Depression diagnoses were ascertained using hospital inpatient records from Hospital Episode Statistics for England, Scottish Morbidity Record data for Scotland and Patient Episode Database for Wales. Additional cases were detected through linkage to death register data from the National Health Service Digita...
Brain injuries are one of the major causes of death and disability worldwide [1]. The global incidence of stroke increases by more than 13.7 million new cases each year [2], and is the third leading cause of disability worldwide [3]. The prevalence of cerebral palsy is estimated to be ...
clinically interpreted EEG data were known to the clinical teams and may have influenced care decisions. To reduce the influence of individual decisions regarding withdrawal of technological support on outcome categorization, these researchers used an outcome measure that grouped death and unfavorable neurol...
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The pre-operative BNP measurement was an independent predictor of peri-operative cardiovascular events among studies that only considered the outcomes of death, cardiovascular death, or myocardial infarction (OR: 44.2, 95 % CI: 7.6 to 257.0, I(2) = 51.6 %), and those that included other ...
The initial trauma to the brain that kills or damagesnerve cellsis only the first step in a drawn-out and complex cascade of events that cause further cell death. Immediately after a traumatic brain injury, cells at or close to the site of injury are mortallywounded, while others farther ...