Sam Shemie / Canadian Neurocritical Care Group / /
Country
France / United States / Canada / United Kingdom / / /
IndustryTerm
organ transplantation technologies / Hebrew law / static imaging / medical technology / organ systems / artificial support systems / /
MedicalCondition
whole-brain death / Brain Death Pediatric Brain Death / ischemic hypoxic brain injury / brain injury / coma / physical injury / deep unresponsive coma / ischemic-hypoxic brain injury / apnea determination / Legal provisions defining brain death / irreversible coma / primary brain injury / premorbid pulmonary disease / brain death / deep coma / actual brain death / Severe Brain Injury / Donor organ dysfunction / hypothermia / apnea testing / apnea / adult brain death / hopelessly irreversible brain injury / non-responsive coma / le coma / variable brain death / brain necrosis / injuries / brainstem injury / /
MedicalTreatment
neurosurgery / /
Organization
Harvard Medical School / American Academy of Neurology / Harvard / Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation / Ad Hoc Committee / Planning Committee / U.S. President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems / Canadian Association of Donation and Transplantation / /
Person
Kim Young / Kathryn Burke / Maggie Shane / James Bernat / Vanessa Boyko / Moses Maimonides / Christopher (Chip) Doig / Gregory Workun / Leonard B. Baron (Eng) / Fred MacDonald / /
Position
President / physician / Brain Death Executive / Author / Rabbi / /
A Review of the Literature on the Determination of Brain Death Acknowledgements The Planning Committee for the Forum on Severe Brain Injury to Neurological Determination of Death (April 9-11, 2003) commissioned this pap