A 15-ICU multicenter validation effort led by Université de Montréal to test CT scans as a brain-death diagnostic tool reports that brainstem CT imaging alone cannot confirm neurological death ...

CT perfusion and angiography failed to meet sensitivity and specificity thresholds to determine brain death. Neither should be used as standalone tests to establish death by neurologic criteria ...

Brain death requires that physicians perform certain clinical tests to make sure the patient has suffered irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain.

A Georgia mother declared brain dead at two months pregnant remains on life support due to the state’s heartbeat law, leaving her family without medical decision-making rights.

A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a ...