RT Article
T1 Aligning the Criterion and Tests for Brain Death
JF Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
VO 28
IS 4
SP 635
OP 641
A1 Bernat, James L.
A1 Ave, Anne L. Dalle
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827983027
AB Disturbing cases continue to be published of patients declared brain dead who later were found to have a few intact brain functions. We address the reasons for the mismatch between the whole-brain criterion and brain death tests, and suggest solutions. Many of the cases result from diagnostic errors in brain death determination. Others probably result from a tiny amount of residual blood flow to the brain despite intracranial circulatory arrest. Strategies to lessen the mismatch include improving brain death determination training for physicians, mandating a test showing complete intracranial circulatory arrest, or revising the whole-brain criterion.
K1 brain death determination
K1 brain death tests
K1 whole brain criterion
K1 Brain Death
DO 10.1017/S0963180119000574