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Brain death criteria formulated for transplantation purposes: fact or myth?
2016
Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy
Medical progress has moved the boundaries of life that were set many centuries ago. The development of medical techniques has allowed us to witness cases that were unknown prior to the introduction of reanimation procedures and mechanical ventilation. Towards the end of the 1950s, the term "irreversible coma" was coined, and has evolved into what is currently known as the "brain death" concept. This latter concept, proposed in 1968, is very often referred to as the new definition of death, even
doi:10.5603/ait.a2016.0015
pmid:26976095
fatcat:i24m2v72lvajjarknlmdr2c2za