What is it about?

It is about to promptly recognize and safelty diagnose the brain death in children dying from irreversible central nervous status damage in Pediatric Intensive Care Units

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Why is it important?

Accurate brain death diagnosis is a very important social and medical issue as it is from these patients that organs could retrieved for transplantation to save lifes

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My personal commitment is to help pediatric intensivists to promptly diagnose the Brain Death in children, hasten unecessary delays, and promote organ donation for transplantation.

Dr Eleni Athanasios Volakli
Hippokration Hospital of Thessaloniki, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

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This page is a summary of: Brain Death in Children, July 2017, IntechOpen,
DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.68468.
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