Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · May 2002
[Diagnosis of brain death using trancranial Doppler ultrasonography in an experimental model of organ donation for transplantation].
To create an experimental organ donor model and validate it by ultrasound evaluation of intracranial blood flow velocity. ⋯ The results of physical examination and ultrasonography in this study provide adequate validation of this experimental model of brain death and demonstrate that transcranial doppler ultrasonography is useful for diagnosing brain death in the rabbit.