Pulmonology

Brain Death

Questions discussed in this category

In patients being evaluated for brain death, which abnormal movements are definitively known to still be consistent with brain death and which are possibly consistent with brain death but lack definitive evidence?

What are the sources for this and are they reliable by today’s standards? Numerous case series report various abnormal movements but how reliabl...

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How do you complete brain death testing in patients who cannot tolerate apnea testing and are unable to transport for ancillary testing?

For instance, if the patient doesn’t tolerate apnea testing, is too unstable to go for ancillary testing outside the ICU, and TCDs/EEG are unava...

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Papers discussed in this category

JAMA,

Determination of Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria: The World Brain Death Project.

Neurocritical care, 2005

Brain death-associated reflexes and automatisms.

Clinical neurophysiology practice, 2022 May 16

Spinal reflexes and brain death.

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