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Life, Death and the Bridges in Between - Part I, with Dr Sam Shemie.

The Critical Care Commute Podcast

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The Importance of Understanding Brain Death

Canadian blood services have just worked with the Canadian Critical Care Society and the Canadian Medical Association to redefine all death as brain based. We don't call that person a patient anymore. We say there is somatic support or in fact the body is alive, but the brain is no longer working and will not recover. How do you educate your colleagues and in particular the family at the bedside about that? And the way to do that is really to understand the fundamental way in which the body functions.

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