Hans Kuhlendahl

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Hans Kuhlendahl (born July 2, 1910 in Bunzlau ; † February 24, 1992 in Düsseldorf ) was a German neurosurgeon and university professor.

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Born in Bunzlau in Silesia, Hans Kuhlendahl received his doctorate in 1935 in Breslau , where he trained as a neurosurgeon. During his studies he became a member of the Cheruskia Breslau fraternity . In 1947 he went to Düsseldorf, where he completed his habilitation at the Medical Academy in 1953 and was made associate professor in 1959 and full professor in 1963. From 1969 until his retirement in 1978, Hans Kuhlendahl worked as director at the neurosurgical clinic of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf.

In 1972 Hans Kuhlendahl was chairman of the German Society for Neurosurgery . From 1974 to 1985 he was President of the Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF). He founded the “Doctors and Jurists Working Group” in the AWMF, in which medical law issues are discussed between doctors and lawyers.

In the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Medical Association, Hans Kuhlendahl played a key role in the development of the “criteria for determining brain death”.

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  1. ^ Hans Kuhlendahl: The operative influenceability of hydromyelia and syringomyelia . Breslau, Med.Diss., 1936
  2. Burschenschafter Stammrolle 1991. P. 61.
  3. Hans Kuhlendahl: Attempt to justify the pathology of neuralgia . Düsseldorf, Med. Ak., Habil. -Schrift 1953
  4. AWMF: Working Group Doctors and Lawyers
  5. ^ Scientific advisory board of the German Medical Association: Criteria of brain death. Decision-making aids for determining brain death - update of the opinion of the Scientific Advisory Board "Criteria for Brain Death" of April 9, 1982 . Deutsches Ärzteblatt 1986; 83 (43): A-2940