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Brain Death in Neurosurgical Critical Care

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Up until the mid-twentieth century, circulatory cessation was used to determine death. Thereafter, the advent of medical technology especially our ability to mechanically ventilate patients with severe brain injury, long after cessation of brain function, required medical communities to review the definition and understanding of death.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Amit Prakash MD, FRCA

  2. Department of Emergency and Perioperative Care, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK

    Basil Matta MD, FRCA

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  1. Amit Prakash MD, FRCA
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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, and Perioperative Medicine, Professor, University School of Medicine, Portland, 97214, Oregon, USA

    Ansgar M. Brambrink

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, and Perioperative Medicine, Professor and Chair, University School of Medicine, Portland, 97214, Oregon, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch

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Prakash, A., Matta, B. (2012). Brain Death in Neurosurgical Critical Care. In: Brambrink, A., Kirsch, J. (eds) Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09562-2_89

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