Introduction A 20-year-old boy was admitted to ICU with a traumatic brain injury following a road traffic accident 48 hours ago. His initial GCS at the scene was 5/15. He was intubated and ventilated by a paramedic and transferred to Accident and Emergency. A CT scan...
No universally accepted definition of what constitutes death within either medicine or law A definition of brainstem death is taken from the unitary state of death as proposed by the Academy of Medical Royal College’s (AoMRC) 2008 Report ‘Code of Practice...
Carried out by two medical practitioners holding full GMC registration for more than five years: One of whom should be a consultant Experienced in interpreting the results Independent of the transplant team (represents a conflict of interest) The doctors may carry out...
Legal time of death is retrospectively noted as the time the first set of tests confirms brainstem death, though death is not declared until after the 2nd...
The Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges UK (AoMRC) code for the diagnosis of death by neurological criteria outlines three essential components: 1. Evidence of irreversible brain damage of known aetiology2. Exclusion of reversible causes of coma and apnoea3. Formal...
