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  • Možganska smrt in presajanje organov: biološka, etična in filozofska vprašanja = Brain death and organ transplantation: biological, ethical and philosophical issues
    Trontelj, Jože, 1939-2013
    The diagnosis of brain death is safe and reliable, provided that the preconditions are met and the diagnostic criteria are carefully applied. On the other hand, we still have no universally accepted ... concept of brain death. In some countries, a person is considered dead when the functions of his or her brainstem are permanently lost. In other countries, brain death is diagnosed when it can be demonstrated that function of the brain as a whole isirreparably destroyed. Arguments are presented against the concept of "brainstem death" as being equivalent to braindeath, and in favour of the "whole brain death" concept. Occasinal survival of the hemispheres above the dead brainstem, although usually short, has been well documented. This condition is suggested to represent an extrme form of the de-efferented states(locked-in syndromes); EEG or some other supportive method must be used to diagnose such cases. Athird concept is increasingly often advocated in the literature: that an irreversible loss of neocortical function means the death of the human being as a person, and that this condition, too, has to be considered as brain death with all its medical, ethical and legal consequences. Even among medical professionals responsible for diagnosing brain-dead patients and working in the areas of intensive care and transplantation there seems to persist a disturbing confusion regarding the concepts of dying and death. This is at least partly due to incoherence and logical contradictions between the different concepts of death.(Abstract truncated at 2000 characters)
    Vir: Medicinski razgledi. Supplement. - ISSN 0353-3484 (Letn. 37, supl. 4, maj 1998, str. 99-108)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 1998
    Jezik - slovenski
    COBISS.SI-ID - 9200089

vir: Medicinski razgledi. Supplement. - ISSN 0353-3484 (Letn. 37, supl. 4, maj 1998, str. 99-108)

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