Brain death has been accepted worldwide medically and legally as the biological state of
death of the organism. Nevertheless, the literature has described persistent problems with …

Some patients who have been diagnosed as “dead by neurologic criteria” continue to exhibit
certain brain functions, most commonly, neuroendocrine functions. In this chapter, we review …

Abstract Discrepancies between the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) and the
adult and pediatric diagnostic guidelines for brain death (BD)(the “Guidelines”) have …

Some patients who have been diagnosed as “dead by neurologic criteria” continue to exhibit
certain brain functions, most commonly, neuroendocrine functions. This preservation of …

abstract Jahi McMath was a 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead on December 12,
2013, after a hemorrhagic complication following complex oropharyngeal surgery. Her case …

Jahi McMath was diagnosed brain dead on 12/12/2013 in strict accordance with both the
pediatric and adult Guidelines, reinforced by 4 isoelectric electroencephalograms and a …

Death can be defined as the permanent cessation of the organism as a whole. Although the
organism as a whole is a century-old concept, it remains better intuited than analyzed …

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 …

From the start, I followed the case of Jahi McMath with great interest. In December 2013, she
clearly fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for brain death. As a neurologist with a special interest …

The mainstream concept of death—the biological one—identifies death with the cessation of
an organism. In this article, I challenge the mainstream position, showing that there is no …