Research Catalog

Title

Brain death and disorders of consciousness / edited by Calixto Machado and D. Alan Shewmon.

Author

International Symposium on Coma and Death (4th : 2004 : Havana, Cuba)

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Machado, Calixto.
• Shewmon, D. Alan.

Description

x, 283 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 0065-2598 ; v. 550

Uniform Title

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 550.

Subject

• Brain Death
• Brain death > Congresses
• Consciousness > physiology
• Persistent Vegetative State > physiopathology
• Tissue and Organ Procurement

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "Proceedings of the IV International Symposium on Coma and Death, held March 9-12, 2004, in Havana, Cuba"--CIP galley.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Brain Death: Updating a Valid Concept for 2004 / Julius Korein and Calixto Machado -- The Concept of Brain Death / Jean-Michel Guerit -- The "Critical Organ" for the Organism as a Whole: Lessons from the Lowly Spinal Cord / D. Alan Shewmon -- "Brain Death" Is Not Death / Paul A. Byrne and Walt F. Weaver -- The Conceptual Basis for Brain Death Revisited: Loss of Organic Integration or Loss of Consciousness? / John P. Lizza -- Consciousness, Mind, Brain, and Death / Josef Seifert -- The Death of Death / James J. Hughes -- The Semiotics of Death and Its Medical Implications / D. Alan Shewmon and Elisabeth Seitz Shewmon -- About the Continuity for Our Consciousness / Pim Van Lommel -- Brain Death and Organ Transplantation: Concepts and Principles in Judaism / Z. Harry Rappaport and Isabelle T. Rappaport -- Cuba Has Passed a Law for the Determination and Certification of Death / Calixto Machado / National Commission for the Determination and Certification of Death -- Neuroprotection Becomes Reality: Changing Times for Cerebral Resuscitation / Maxwell S. Damian -- Controlled Hypertension for Refractory High Intracranial Pressure / Philippe Hantson -- On Irreversibility as a Prerequisite for Brain Death Determination / James L. Bernat -- How Should Testing for Apnea Be Performed in Diagnosing Brain Death? / Christoph J. G. Lang and Josef G. Heckmann -- Evoked Potentials in the Diagnosis of Brain Death / Enrico Facco and Calixto Machado -- Recovery from Near Death following Cerebral Anoxia: A Case Report Demonstrating Superiority of Median Somatosensory Evoked Potentials over EEG in Predicting a Favorable Outcome after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Ted L. Rothstein -- Human Brain-Dead Donors and [superscript 31]P MRS Studies on Feline Myocardial Energy Metabolism / George J. Brandon Bravo Bruinsma and Cees J. A. Van Echteld -- Organ Donation after Fatal Poisoning: An Update with Recent Literature Data / Philippe Hantson -- The ABC of PVS: Problems of Definition / D. Alan Shewmon -- Brain Function in the Vegetative State / Steven Laureys, Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, Xavier De Tiege, Philippe Peigneux, Jacques Berre, Gustave Moonen, Serge Goldman and Pierre Maquet -- Global Neurodynamics and Deep Brain Stimulation: Appreciating the Perspectives of Place and Process / David I. Pincus -- Honoring Treatment Preferences near the End of Life: The Oregon Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program / Terri A. Schmidt, Susan E. Hickman and Susan W. Tolle -- Palliative Sedation in Terminally Ill Patients / Paul C. Rousseau.

ISBN

030648482X

LCCN

2004044858

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries