A Need to Diagnose Brain Death with utmost accuracy and urgency because of Organ Retrieval for Transplantation. An Overview.

A Need to Diagnose Brain Death with utmost accuracy and urgency because of Organ Retrieval for Transplantation.

An Overview.

There is a need to diagnose brain death with utmost accuracy and urgency because of an increased awareness amongst the masses for an early diagnosis of brain death and the requirements of organ retrieval for transplantation.

Physicians, health care workers, members of the clergy, and laypeople throughout the world have accepted fully that a person is dead when his or her brain is dead.

Although the widespread use of mechanical ventilators and other advanced critical care services have transformed the course of terminal neurologic disorders.

Vital functions can now be maintained artificially for a long period of time after the brain has ceased to function.

Physicians need not be, or consult with, a neurologist or neurosurgeon in order to determine brain death.

There is a need to diagnose brain death with utmost accuracy and urgency because of an increased awareness amongst the masses for an early diagnosis of brain death and the requirements of organ retrieval for transplantation.

Further, the Process for brain death certification has been discussed under several headings briefly.

Thus, an attempt has been made in this E-Booklet to discuss the focal points on the clinical determination of brain death in adults and children, including the potential confounding factors, and to cater an overview of valid confirmatory tests, precisely!

Dr. H. K. Saboowala.

M.B.(Bom) .M.R.S.H.(London)

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