Importance There are inconsistencies in concept, criteria, practice, and documentation of
brain death/death by neurologic criteria (BD/DNC) both internationally and within countries. …

Objectives Children waiting for organ transplants continue to die because of the shortage of
available organs. Studies of organ donation in children are scarce. The evaluation of the …

Objective: Death statutes permit physicians to declare death on the basis of irreversible
cessation of circulatory–respiratory or brain functions. The growing practice of organ donation …

These recommendations are the result of a national, multidisciplinary, year-long process to
discuss whether and how to proceed with organ donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) …

Introduction and Methods This report summarizes the results of the first phase in the
development of international guidelines for death determination, focusing on the biology of death …

literature reviews and related practice surveys. During the forum, each of the 5 areas was
addressed using the following process. Presentations by experts were followed by open …

… a b c d e , Laura Hornby f g , Sam D. Shemie g h i , Farhan Bhanji h i j , Elena Guadagno
k … IO-D declares that this systematic review would have never been possible without the …

The management of patients with severe brain injury falls within the disciplines of emergency
medical services, trauma, critical care, neurology and neurosurgery. Consultation and …

Objective: There is a lack of consensus on how long circulation must cease for death to be
determined after cardiac arrest. The lack of scientific evidence concerning autoresuscitation …

A decision to withdraw life-sustaining treatment (WLST) is derived by a conclusion that further
treatment will not enable a patient to survive or will not produce a functional outcome with …