Determination of death by neurologic criteria around the world
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- Received September 19, 2019
- Accepted in final form December 29, 2019
- First Published June 23, 2020.
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- Ariane Lewis, MD,
- Azza Bakkar, BA,
- Elana Kreiger-Benson, BA,
- Andrew Kumpfbeck, BE,
- Jordan Liebman, BA,
- Sam D. Shemie, MD,
- Gene Sung, MD, MPH,
- Sylvia Torrance, BSc and
- David Greer, MD, MA
- Ariane Lewis, MD,
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1) Seminars in Neurology, Deputy Editor, 2019-present; 2) Neurology, Deputy Editor of Disputes and Debates, 2018-present; 3) Neurosurgical Focus, Guest Editor 2019
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- Sam D. Shemie, MD,
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medical advisor, deceased donation, Canadian Blood Services
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- Gene Sung, MD, MPH,
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Becton Dickenson, Inc., provides support to my institution for research that I'm involved with. I receive no direct compensation.
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- From the NYU Langone Medical Center (A.L.); NYU School of Medicine (A.B., E.K.-B., A.K., J.L.), New York; Montreal Children's Hospital (S.D.S.), McGill University, Quebec; Canadian Blood Services (S.D.S., S.T.), Ottawa, Ontario; LAC and USC Medical Center (G.S.), Los Angeles, CA; and Boston University School of Medicine (D.G.), MA.
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Letters: Rapid online correspondence
- Author response: Determination of death by neurologic criteria around the world
- Ariane Lewis, Neurointensivist, NYU Langone Medical Center
- Sam D. Shemie, Pediatric Intensivist, Montreal Children's Hospital
- Gene Sung, Neurointensivist, LAC and USC Medical Center
- Sylvia Torrance, Canadian Blood Services, Canadian Blood Services
- David Greer, Neurointensivist, Boston University School of Medicine
Submitted July 13, 2020 - Reader response: Determination of death by neurologic criteria around the world
- Calixto Machado, Neurologist, AAN Corresponding Fellow, Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (Havana, Cuba)
Submitted July 02, 2020 - Author response: Determination of death by neurologic criteria around the world
- Ariane Lewis, Neurointensivist, NYU Langone Medical Center
- Sam D. Shemie, Pediatric intensivist, Montreal Children's Hospital
- Gene Sung, Neurointensivist, LAC and USC Medical Center
- Sylvia Torrance, Canadian Blood Services, Canadian Blood Services
- David Greer, Neurointensivist, Boston University School of Medicine
Submitted June 29, 2020 - Reader response: Determination of death by neurologic criteria around the world
- Nitin K. Sethi, Associate Professor of Neurology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center (New York, NY)
Submitted June 26, 2020
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