Brain Death

ISBN-13: 9780190662493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 296 str.

Eelco F. M. Wijdicks

Opis

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Brain Death provides a practical, comprehensive, clinical resource for practitioners seeing patients with acute catastrophic neurologic disorders evolving to brain death and all its ramifications. The clinical diagnosis of brain death has tremendous implications: its main purpose is to bring closure, but it often results in organ and tissue transplantation questions which need to be addressed.

This third edition introduces new research in the intensive care unit, newly unearthed historical data on important US-UK differences, a thorough discussion of US guidelines and how it is used in hospital practices, and compares guidelines used elsewhere in the world. In this incisive work, the many complexities of diagnosis and management of brain death are examined but it also illuminates cultural beliefs and bioethical problems, highlights the nature of conferences with family members, and captures several organ procurement issues. The book also includes 30 commonly asked practice problems to resolve diagnostic uncertainties and conflicts along with 12 video clips to assist in neurological evaluation.

Brain Death is a treatise by the leading expert on brain death, Eelco F.M. Wijdicks. This book is a work of primary source research and includes work from recent publications by the author. It is an invaluable resource for neurologists, neurointensivists, neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, trauma surgeons, neuroscience and intensive care nursing staff, transplantation surgeons, and organ procurement organizations.

Recenzje

Dr. Wijdicks is the world's leading authority on brain death. He continues to advance the knowledge base while honoring the historical context of the brain death concept. This is the definitive resource for all aspects of brain death determination and its intricate relationship to organ donation. If you know very little about brain death, you should read this book. If you think you know a lot about brain death, you should still read this book. The section on clinical problems and common clinical questions is an extremely useful practical guide to managing common complexities of clinical practices in this field.

O autorze

Eelco F.M. Wijdicks is Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Chair of the Division of Critical Care Neurology, and Consultant, Neurological Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, Saint Marys Hospital, Mayo Clinic