Brain death is characterized by a complete and irreversible neurological stoppage, irreversible coma, absent brainstem reflexes, and apnea. There is a need to confirm brain death with accuracy. This article features some of the diagnostic criteria used to conclude brain death. When the treatment or patients with severe brain injury are unsuccessful followings to brain death, then the physician has the responsibility to diagnose brain death with certainty.
The three crucial findings in brain death are coma (unresponsiveness), an absence of brainstem reflexes, and apnea. Prerequisites to determine brain death Preconditions for diagnosis of brain death Pathophysiology Examination Preconditions for diagnosis of brain death Coma due to irreversible acute brain damage of known etiology, affecting both hemispheres and brainstem. At the time of beginning the neurological examination, it is…
