Background: In accordance with the Uniform Determination of Death Act, guidelines for brain
death determination are developed at an institutional level, potentially leading to variability …

Brain death has been accepted as a legal definition of death in most countries, but practices
for determining brain death vary widely. One source of variation is in the use of ancillary …

Abstract The Uniform Determination of Death Act indicates that “an individual who has
sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) …

In April 2018, Harvard Medical School sponsored a program commemorating the 50th
anniversary of that institution's landmark report in JAMA, which was highly influential in …

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 …

Objective. Research continues to highlight variability in hospital policy and documentation of
brain death. The aim of our study was to characterize how strictly new guidelines of …

Berkowitz and Garrett (2020) appeal to legal and ethical principles in order to argue that
apnea testing for brain death determination requires informed consent from the patient's …

Abstract In 2010, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) published updated official
guidelines for specific practices involved in the determination of death by neurologic criteria …

Until six decades ago, death was considered to be a specific point in time, referring to the
moment at which life ends. With the availability of ventilators, even determining when death …

When a patient is admitted to a hospital for treatment, it is a general policy and practice that
the patient (or their surrogate, if the patient is incapacitated) consents to be treated. Of …