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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"brain dead"”.
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Characteristics of organ donors and logistics of organ procurement for short- and long-term outcomes in abdominal organ transplantation
… To this day, most organs are gifted from brain-dead donors. These donors suffer from a brain death-derived release of inflammatory mediators and sympathetic nervous system hyperactivation, called the cytokine and autonomic storm. These reactions are thought to harm transplantable organs. …
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Flesh yours, bones mine : the making of the biomedical subject in Turkey
… technologies, human body parts from living or dead donors have become commodities in the international networks of trade. This dissertation tries to understand religious, political and ethical discourses on this emerging economy and how it creates its subjects in Turkey. By drawing analogies …
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Measurements of adequacy of anesthesia and level of consciousness during surgery and intensive care
… anesthesia assess the cortical function of the brain, and have gained acceptance during surgical anesthesia with most of the anesthetic agents used. However, due to frequent artifacts, they are considered unsuitable for monitoring consciousness in intensive care patients. The assessment of …
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Rethinking Death and Donation: Mediating Death at the End of Life in the Wake of Brain Death's Failings
Since its inception in 1968, death by whole-brain criteria, or simply brain death, has enjoyed the status of one of the relatively "well settled" issues in bioethics. Indeed, its almost universal acceptance in law and medical practice seems to confirm this depiction. However, over the last fifteen …
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Why, how and when do children die in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in South Africa?
… resuscitation and 17.3% (n=78) were diagnosed brain dead. Ultimately, 270 (60%) children died after the decision to limit or withdraw life sustaining therapies. There was no difference in the number of deaths during office and after-hours periods (45.5% vs. 54%; p = 0.07). Severe sepsis (21.9%) …
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Attitudes towards organ donor advocacy among Swedish intensive and critical care nurses.
… (ICU) involves the rare situation of caring for brain dead persons who, by their death, become potential organ donors (POD). A consequence might be that end-of-life care continues into after-death care in order to facilitate organ donation (OD). In this situation, the concept of organ donor …
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Perceptions of Family Members of Cadaveric Organ Donors Towards Selected Issues of the Organ Donation Process
… families who had agreed to donate organs from a brain dead family member during the calendar year of 1994. The family members surveyed were the family members of donor(s) whose organ(s) were successfully placed with a waiting recipient. All of the families were served by the organ procurement …
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Untersuchung costimulatorischer Signalwege bei chronischer Transplantatabstoßung und Langzeit-Organakzeptanz nach allogener Nierentransplantation an einem experimentellen Hirntod-Spender-Transplantationsmodell
Zusammenfassend zeigen die Untersuchungsergebnisse, dass eine Kombination aus niedrig dosiertem Sirolimus und CsA einen synergistischen immunsuppressiven Effekt nach Nierentransplantation aufweisen. rPSGL-Ig wirkt additiv und reduziert frühe unspezifische oder auch Alloantigen-unabhängige …