For decades, brain death has been an important but problematic factor for determining death. Is it time for a new approach?

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 ...

The World Brain Death Project also proposed international guidelines recently, saying ancillary tests like CT perfusion and CT angiography needed further study.

Trauma centers across the United States are preparing to test a groundbreaking new approach for assessing traumatic brain ...