The complete and persistent absence of __________ is used to determine brain death.
Biology · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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The three essential findings in brain death are coma, absence of brain stem reflexes, and apnea .
The complete and persistent absence of intelligence is used to determine brain death.
An evaluation for brain death should be considered in patients who have suffered a massive, irreversible brain injury of identifiable cause. A patient properly determined to be brain dead is legally and clinically dead.
The diagnosis of brain death is primarily clinical. No other tests are required if the full clinical examination, including an assessment of brain stem reflexes and an apnea test, is conclusively performed. In the absence of either complete clinical findings consistent with brain death or ancillary tests demonstrating brain death, brain death cannot be diagnosed.