...Olaf Hoffmann; Florian Masuhr Background: In the absence of primary infratentorial brain lesions, the German guideline on brain death (BD) permits diagnosis based on two clinical assessments separated by a defined observational period or by one clinical assessment and an ancillary test. Methods...

...E. Vicenzini; P. Pulitano; R. Cicchetti; F. Randi; P. Papov; G. Spadetta; G. Sirimarco; M.C. Ricciardi; V. Di Piero; G.L. Lenzi; O. Mecarelli Objective: Transcranial Doppler (TCD) is a sensitive technique for circulatory arrest diagnosis in brain death when patterns such as reverberant flow...

...H. Buchner; V. Schuchardt The definition of brain death includes the irreversible loss of all brainstem and forebrain functions. The electroencephalogram (EEG), used to test forebrain functions, is part of the diagnostic armamentarium and is considered necessary even after primary infratentorial...

...R. Biniek; A. Ferbert; H. Buchner; H. Brückmann The loss of brainstem acoustic evoked potentials (BAEP) is considered as a confirmatory test for the diagnosis of brain death in patients with supratentorial lesions. We report a patient with ischemia in the territory of the left middle and anterior...

... brain autopsy. Serial neurophysiological investigations, including EEG and multimodality evoked potentials and radiological examinations (cerebral magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomodensitometry) were performed. Whereas the clinical findings and EEG were compatible with brain death at the end...

...S. Al-Shammri; R.F. Nelson; R. Madavan; T.A. Subramaniam; T.R. Swaminathan Background: Persistent cessation of all cerebral and brainstem function (brain death) is accepted in most countries as legal evidence of death. It is presumed that cardiac function will cease within a short time after brain...