… are comatose and reviews the current knowledge on prognosis from various causes of coma.
This article also provides an overview of the principles for determination of brain death as …

… of brain injury, if known, and preventing secondary brain injury … Brain death must be diagnosed
with similar care and … Coma is defined as a pathological state of deep and sustained (>…

… Coma as a clinical state has ancient roots, but the … for brain death causal of irreversible
coma was first published in a now classic article in JAMA in 1968. The criteria for brain death …

… brain death are coma, absence of brainstem reflexes, and apnoea. An evaluation for brain
death should be considered in patients who have suffered a massive, irreversible brain injury …

Definition of Coma The definition of coma rests on the definition of consciousness. Because
consciousness evades any direct observation, there cannot be a scientific definition, …

… with this condition which they coined “coma dépassé,” ie irreversible coma (21). In this paper,
the authors discussed hallmarks of brain death such as the absence of brainstem function, …

… brain death, and managing end-of-life care. Prognostication of outcome after cardiac arrest
in comatose … Brain death is a clinical condition of irreversible coma of known cause with …

… of brain death and defined irreversible coma, or brain death, as … , the absence of brain-stem
reflexes, and coma whose cause … to the brain stem as a critical component of severe brain …

… definition of brain death, butthe … of brain death. These criteria included establishing an
etiology sufficient to account for the loss of all brain functions, diagnosing the presence of coma, …

… The three cardinal findings in brain death are coma or unresponsiveness, absence of
brainstem reflexes, and apnea. The clinical examination of the brainstem includes testing of …