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References used for this fact sheet
- How? [online], LifeLink Organ & Tissue Donation Network NSW/ACT (incorporating Australian Red Cross Blood Service and metropolitan Area Health Services, NSW), New South Wales, Australia. More information here.
- 'Stupor and coma - general' [online], The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, eds R. Berkow, M. Beers, A. Fletcher & R. Bogin. Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA. More information here.
- Brain death (2000) [online], University of Missouri Health Care, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. More information here.
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Last updated: March 2008
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