Brain death
Muerte cerebral
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Brain death or brain death is a recent concept in medicine that has awakened an intense ethical, cultural and biomedical controversy that interests not only neurologists, transplantologists and judges. Its diagnosis is essentially clinical, however, it means a great challenge for the medical observer. Paraclinical methods can help, shortening the time of observation and are necessary in cases of poisoning by neurotoxic, hypothermia or in newborns.
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