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15586966

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-9
pubmed:abstractText
The definition of death has taken many forms throughout history. Because of advances in critical care and developments in transplantation, a new definition of death has evolved over the past 30 years. The first accounts of brain death were published in 1959, in relative obscurity. They were only considered to be of academic interest. In the mid-1960s, advances in transplantation and the need for viable organs started debate about the use of "brain-dead" patients as organ donors. Conceptual advances by the ad hoc committee of the Harvard medical school and the use of angiography and the electroencephalogram both advanced and confused the issue. Acceptance by the medical community remained divided. During the 1970s, brain-stem death was proposed as the true definition of death by pioneers in the United States and Britain. In the 1980s, the clinical diagnosis of brain-stem death was officially accepted and many of the controversies subsided.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
E
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0035-8800
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
KIE
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
30-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
The evolution of the concept of brain death.
pubmed:affiliation
Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr. N.W., Calgary AB T2N 4N1, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Historical Article