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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2006

Severe brain injury to neurological determination of death: Canadian forum recommendations.

Sam D Shemie, Christopher Doig, Bernard Dickens, Paul Byrne, Brian Wheelock, Graeme Rocker, Andrew Baker, T Peter Seland, Cameron Guest, Dan Cass and 5 more

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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60citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. National recommendations for donation after cardiocirculatory death in Canada: Donation after cardiocirculatory death in Canada.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2006
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  10. [Determination of brain death in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation-case report].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2023
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  12. Rationale for revisions to the definition of death and criteria for its determination in Canada.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023
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  13. Answering global challenges to the determination of death: consensus-building leadership from Canada.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023
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  15. Infratentorial brain injury and death by neurologic criteria in Canada: a narrative review.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023
    Review
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  20. Brain death: a clinical overview.Journal of intensive care · 2022
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Sam D ShemieDivision of Pediatric Critical Care, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Que. sam.shemie@muhc.mcgill.ca
Christopher Doig
Bernard Dickens
Paul Byrne
Brian Wheelock
Graeme Rocker
Andrew Baker
T Peter Seland
Cameron Guest
Dan Cass
Rosella Jefferson
Kimberly Young
Jeanne Teitelbaum
Pediatric Reference Group
Neonatal Reference Group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Guidelines as TopicTissue and Organ ProcurementBrain DeathBrain InjuriesCadaverCanadaHumansInternational CooperationSeverity of Illness IndexSocieties, Medical

Identifiers

PMID16534069
PMCPMC1402399

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