Brain death in children: Part II.
The determination of brain death in children has increasingly relied on a variety of neurodiagnostic studies to confirm the clinical diagnosis. This second article on brain death reviews the relevant pediatric electroencephalographic, evoked response, and cerebral blood flow studies, provides our recommendations and protocol for the determination of brain death in children, and considers some of the problems associated with physiologic stabilization of the brain dead child who is considered for organ donation.
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Department of Pediatrics, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, California 92350.
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D000293:Adolescent; D001926:Brain Death / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001927:Brain Diseases; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement