D Alan Shewmon
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Shewmon D
Neurology
. 2024 Feb;
102(6):e209196.
PMID: 38408293
When the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) was recently in the process of revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), ® ran a series of debates over certain controversial issues...
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DeCock C, Sulmasy D, Shewmon D, Camosy C, Accad M, Nguyen D
Linacre Q
. 2023 Oct;
90(3):231-233.
PMID: 37841385
No abstract available.
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Folkerth R, Crary J, Shewmon D
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol
. 2022 Dec;
82(1):6-20.
PMID: 36519406
Brain death (death by neurologic criteria) is declared in 2% of all in-hospital deaths in the United States. Published neuropathology studies of individuals maintained on cardiorespiratory support are generally decades...
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Shewmon D, Salamon N
Perspect Biol Med
. 2021 Nov;
64(4):457-478.
PMID: 34840151
Jahi McMath was a 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead on December 12, 2013, after a hemorrhagic complication following complex oropharyngeal surgery. Her case gained international attention as her...
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Shewmon D, Salamon N
J Child Neurol
. 2021 Nov;
37(1):35-42.
PMID: 34814769
Jahi McMath was diagnosed brain dead on 12/12/2013 in strict accordance with both the pediatric and adult Guidelines, reinforced by 4 isoelectric electroencephalograms and a radionuclide scan showing intracranial circulatory...
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Shewmon D
J Med Philos
. 2021 May;
PMID: 33987668
Discrepancies between the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) and the adult and pediatric diagnostic guidelines for brain death (BD) (the "Guidelines") have motivated proposals to revise the UDDA. A...
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Shewmon D
Hastings Cent Rep
. 2018 Dec;
48 Suppl 4:S22-S25.
PMID: 30584860
At its inception, "brain death" was proposed not as a coherent concept but as a useful one. The 1968 Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the...