Brain Death and Disorders of Consciousness

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Brain Death....Pages 1-14
The Concept of Brain Death....Pages 15-21
The “Critical Organ” for the Organism as a Whole....Pages 23-41
“Brain Death” is not Death....Pages 43-49
The Conceptual Basis for Brain Death Revisited....Pages 51-59
Consciousness, Mind, Brain, and Death....Pages 61-78
The Death of Death....Pages 79-87
The Semiotics of Death and its Medical Implications....Pages 89-114
About the Continuity of Our Consciousness....Pages 115-132
Brain Death and Organ Transplantation....Pages 133-137
Cuba has Passed a Law for the Determination and Certification of Death....Pages 139-142
Neuroprotection Becomes Reality....Pages 143-150
Controlled Hypertension for Refractory High Intracranial Pressure....Pages 151-159
On Irreversibility as a Prerequisite for Brain Death Determination....Pages 161-167
How Should Testing for Apnea be Performed in Diagnosing Brain Death?....Pages 169-174
Evoked Potentials in the Diagnosis of Brain Death....Pages 175-187
Recovery from near Death Following Cerebral Anoxia....Pages 189-196
Human Brain-Dead Donors and 31 P MRS Studies on Feline Myocardial Energy Metabolism....Pages 197-205
Organ Donation after Fatal Poisoning....Pages 207-213
The ABC of PVS....Pages 215-228
Brain Function in the Vegetative State....Pages 229-238
Global Neurodynamics and Deep Brain Stimulation....Pages 239-253
Honoring Treatment Preferences Near the End of Life....Pages 255-262
Palliative Sedation in Terminally Ill Patients....Pages 263-267
Back Matter....Pages 269-287