Critical Synopsis in Brain Death Determination: A Case Report of Brain Death
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Brain death is a novel construct of death for the procurement of transplantable organs. Brain death is a novel Western construct of human death. Beecher and the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death (1968) introduced this particular concept of death in the USA. Brain death is a neurologic state that belongs to the spectrum of disorders of consciousness and is associated with severe disabilities (1,2). The presence of severe neurologic disabilities should not be confused with death (2,3).
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