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Brain death is the colloquial term describing the determination of human death based upon showing the irreversible cessation of all clinical brain functions. Although the term brain death is potentially misleading because it suggests that there are different types of death, or that it is only the brain that is dead in such cases, it is the term that remains universally used and I will use it here.
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Bernat, J.L. (2004). On Irreversibility as a Prerequisite for Brain Death Determination. In: Machado, C., Shewmon, D.A. (eds) Brain Death and Disorders of Consciousness. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 550. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48526-8_14
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