New guidelines are published
Neurology, 8 juni 2010
One of the things most likely to entice controversy in medical care is taking people off life support. Determining when a patient is brain-dead is surprisingly difficult, and doctors and family members need to make very difficult decisions when considering terminating life support. In order to make this job somewhat easier, researchers have recently published a new set of guidelines, which provide experts with a step-by-step process in determining when the adult brain is really dead. The new document does not apply to the infant brain, the people behind it say.
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