Apnea testing for the determination of brain death: a systematic scoping review

KM Busl, A Lewis, PN Varelas - Neurocritical care, 2021 - Springer
… an appropriate target for assessment of brain death [3]. … ) and review of relevant medical
literature from 1980 to 2019 … prior to apnea testing are modifications that have been published as …

[HTML][HTML] The use of apnea test and brain death determination in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a systematic review

I Migdady, RS Stephens, C Price, RG Geocadin… - The Journal of Thoracic …, 2021 - Elsevier
… on BD in ECMO to better understand the clinical practices of performing BD examination. …
to this study but extends to most BD research in the literature Lastly, there is risk of publication

Challenges of brain death and apnea testing in adult patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation—a review

SA Lie, NC Hwang - Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular …, 2019 - jcvaonline.com
brain death in patients on ECMO, there is little published experience describing the process
of neurological assessment in diagnosing brain death … gap in the literature and address an …

Brain death: a clinical overview

W Spears, A Mian, D Greer - Journal of intensive care, 2022 - Springer
clinical components of the brain death exam: assessment of coma, cranial nerves, motor
testing, and apnea testingpublished by the World Brain Death Project, supplement 15 [6]. …

Apnea test during brain death assessment in mechanically ventilated and ECMO patients

M Giani, V Scaravilli, SM Colombo, A Confalonieri… - Intensive care …, 2016 - Springer
… A number of relevant methodological differences between this study and previously
published series may provide the justification for our positive findings. First, all of the ATs were …

Legal and ethical considerations for requiring consent for apnea testing in brain death determination

I Berkowitz, JR Garrett - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… since the publication of the report, the diagnosis of death by neurologic … basis for the risk
assessment. The insidious phenomenon … Regardless of clinical practice and other legal cases in …

Variability in reported physician practices for brain death determination

SA Braksick, CP Robinson, GS Gronseth, S Hocker… - Neurology, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
… adult brain death examination as a part of their clinical practice… For responses provided in
ranges (eg, apnea test duration of … published the case of Jahi McMath who showed BD clinical

Determination of brain death/death by neurologic criteria: the world brain death project

DM Greer, SD Shemie, A Lewis, S Torrance, P Varelas… - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Brain Death Project was undertaken to establish minimum standards for diagnosing brain
death/death … across a broad range of settings and clinical circumstances. In this Q&A, …

The modified apnea test during brain death determination: an alternative in patients with hypoxia

A Ahlawat, R Carandang, SO Heard… - Journal of intensive …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… Previous literature demonstrates that apnea is declared when … apnea test can serve as a
means to safely assess for apnea … the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Dr. …

[PDF][PDF] Evolution of apnoea test in brain death diagnostics

J Sołek-Pastuszka, W Saucha, W Iwańczuk… - Anestezjologia …, 2019 - termedia.pl
… The concept of brain death (BD) was initially described in 1959 and subsequently became
… , especially regarding the apnoea test (AT), a crucial element of clinical BD confirmation. The …