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Confirmation of brainstem death
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Contributors EJC wrote the review. AB and MSD made significant contributions to the review. DPB conceived the idea and wrote the review.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed. This paper was reviewed by David Greer, Yale, USA, and Andrew Chancellor, Tauranga, New Zealand.
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