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Pediatric Brain Death and Organ/Tissue Retrieval

Medical, Ethical, and Legal Aspects

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Background: Including Historical, Ethical, Legal, and Practical Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xvii-xvii
    2. Protestant Perspectives on Organ Donation

      • James F. Childress
      Pages 45-53
    3. The Legal Status of Brain-Based Determinations of Death

      • Alexander Morgan Capron
      Pages 55-63
  3. Criteria for the Declaration of Brain Death in Children

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Pediatric Brain Death and Organ Transplantation

      • John F. Edmonds, Sik-Nin Wong
      Pages 89-99
    3. Brain Death in Children Task Force Guidelines

      • David A. Stumpf
      Pages 129-133
    4. Validity of Radionuclide Cerebral Angiography for Diagnosing Brain Death in Infants

      • Julius M. Goodman, Larry L. Heck, Stephen K. Nugent, Michael S. Turner
      Pages 135-148
    5. Detection of Blood Flow to the Brain by Radionuclide Cerebral Imaging

      • Jan Arthur Schwartz, David Brill, John Baxter
      Pages 149-156

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, USA

    Howard H. Kaufman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pediatric Brain Death and Organ/Tissue Retrieval

  • Book Subtitle: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Aspects

  • Editors: Howard H. Kaufman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5532-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Publishing Corporation 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5534-2Published: 02 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5532-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 384

  • Topics: Neurology, Neurosurgery, Pediatrics

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