title: Confirmation of brain death at bedside by isotope angiography.
abstract: Documentation of the absence of cerebral circulation is useful as a confirmatory test of brain death. Intravenous isotope angiography performed at the bedside with a mobile gamma camera is a safe, convenient, rapid, reliable, and easily understood method of proving the absence of cerebral blood flow that occurs in brain death.
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D002533:Cerebral Angiography / Q000379:methods; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003287:Contrast Media / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media