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4th International Symposium on Coma and Death - Conference - Cuba

Date: 09.03.2004 to 12.03.2004
Location: International Conference Center
Havana
Cuba
Keywords: Brain death - PVS
Details: Human Death and related issues: Conceptual approach to human death; Brain death criteria in different countries; Ancillary tests in brain death; Brain death in childhood; Anencephalic infants; End-of-life dilemmas: persistent vegetative state, dementia, terminal patient, euthanasia, assisted suicide, etc.; Legal considerations surrounding brain death and related states; Philosophical, theological, sociological, historical and cultural considerations of human death; Organ transplantation. Coma: Neurophysiology of consciousness generation; Etiologies of coma: head trauma, stroke, metabolic, etc.; Ancillary tests for predicting outcome in coma; Neuro-intensive care; Neuromonitoring; Neuroprotección; New trends in cardio-pulmonar-cerebral resuscitation.
Organizer: The Institute of neurology and Neurosurgery , Havana , Cuba
Contact: Dr. Calixto Machado, MD, Ph.D.
Address:
Instituto de Neurologia y Neurocirygia, 29 y D, Vedado, Apartado Postal 4268, Ciudad de La Habana 10400, Cuba
Tel: 537-553022 Ext 218
Fax: 537-228382
Email: braind@infomed.sld.cu
Webpage: http://www.sld.cu/eventos/comaymuerte/index.htm

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