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Recommendations to improve consensus of determining brain death, death by neurologic criteria

Peer-Reviewed Publication

JAMA Network

What The Study Did: International professional societies developed recommendations for minimum clinical standards to determine brain death/death by neurologic criteria in adults and children to improve the consistency of these criteria within and among countries.

Authors: Gene Sung, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.11586)

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