Pediatric brain death certification: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT: In the five decades since its inception, brain death has become an accepted medical and legal concept throughout most of the world. There was initial reluctance to apply brain death criteria to children as they are believed more likely to regain neurologic function following injury. In spite of early trepidation, criteria for pediatric brain death certification were first proposed in 1987 by a multidisciplinary committee comprised of experts in the medical and legal communities. Protocols have since been developed to standardize brain death determination, but there remains substantial variability in practice throughout the world. In addition, brain death remains a topic of considerable ethical, philosophical, and legal controversy, and is often misrepresented in the media. In the present a

SUBMITTER: Fainberg N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8578760 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature