Understanding Brain Death
Open Access
- 2 June 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 323 (21), 2139-2140
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.3593
Abstract
This Viewpoint examines the need to reconcile discrepancies between the definition of brain death in the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act and current diaThis publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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