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  • Možganska smrt - informiranost zdravnikov = Brain death - how are the doctors informed and what do they think?
    Avsec, Danica ; Zabavnik, Zoran
    Background. First criteria for brain death were published in the USA in 1968. After this dae they were changed many times, and became more simple. Today brain death still worries professional and lay ... people equally. A routine and precise diagnostic approach is a vital and essential condition for a good transplantation programme. This programme is still not satisfactory in Slovenia. We wanted to establish a level of knowledge and the personal opinionof the Slovene specialists regarding brain death. Only specialists involve of the brain death patients or transplantations were interviwed. We wanted to ascertain what the specialists thought about the third criteria of brain death and also about new rules following diagnostics of brain death. Methods. We carried out a survey. This survey was also intended to encourage rethinking about this very special medical field. Brain death and the criteriafor diagnosis first have to be completely clear in professional circles, and as a consequence lay people would be well informed when asking about donations. The survey was anonymous. We distributed questionnaires to 58doctors, who were divided into two groups. The first group construed doctorswho were in contact directly with brain death patients. The second group construed those doctors who were interested in transplantation as a treatment for seriously ill patients. Results and conclusions. The knowledge of criteria for brain death is better in the first group, and also the personal opinion is more appropriate in the first group. However, we would like to stimulate other collegues to feel confident about the knowledge of brain death and to promote transplantation because we are placed between two very depressive situations - on the one hand an irreversible damage of the brain resulting in brain death, and on the other one seriously ill chronic patients in need for transplantation. If we are well informed, we can work better.
    Vir: Zdravniški vestnik : glasilo Slovenskega zdravniškega društva = Slovenian medical journal = journal of Slovenian Medical Association. - ISSN 1318-0347 (Letn. 67, št. 7/8, julij-avgust 1998, str. 401-403)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 1998
    Jezik - slovenski
    COBISS.SI-ID - 7877593

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