ReviewNeurocritical care2004
A critique of ancillary tests for brain death.
Review in Neurocritical care, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Computed tomography angiography in the diagnosis of brain death: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neurocritical care · 2014Pooled it
- Exclusive color-coded duplex sonography of extracranial vessels reliably confirms brain death: A prospective study.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Revised CT angiography venous score with consideration of infratentorial circulation value for diagnosing brain death.Annals of intensive care · 2016Article
- Renaissance of criticism on the concept of brain death--the role of legal medicine in the context of the interdisciplinary discussion.International journal of legal medicine · 2016Article
- Technical aids in the diagnosis of brain death: a comparison of SEP, AEP, EEG, TCD and CT angiography.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2012Article
- CT and MR perfusion can discriminate severe cerebral hypoperfusion from perfusion absence: evaluation of different commercial software packages by using digital phantoms.Neuroradiology · 2012Article
- Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in the assessment of cerebral circulation arrest: improving sensitivity by transcervical and transorbital carotid insonation and serial examinations.Neurocritical care · 2009Article
- The Declaration of Sydney on human death.Journal of medical ethics · 2007Article
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Abstract
The acceptance of brain death by society has allowed for the discontinuation of "life support" and the transplantation of organs. The standard clinical criteria for brain death, when rigorously applied, ensure that the brainstem is destroyed. Because more rostral structures are more vulnerable than the brainstem, these are almost invariably devastated when brainstem function is irreversibly lost as a result of whole brain insults. Then, clinical criteria for "brainstem death" ensure that "whole-brain death" is present. However, if the brainstem is selectively damaged or if brainstem function cannot be adequately assessed clinically, ancillary tests are needed to confirm whole-brain death with certainty. Ancillary tests are also required in very young children. In addition, some societies require their use as a matter of principle. Only tests of whole-brain perfusion adequately serve these purposes.
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