Brain death : determination with brain stem evoked potentials and radionuclide isotope studies

• Published in: Acta neurochirurgica Vol. 112; no. 3-4; pp. 118 - 125
• Main Authors: ERBENGI, A, ERBENGI, G, CATALTEPE, O, TOPCU, M, ERBAS, B, ARAS, T
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wien Springer 01-01-1991; New York, NY
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Death - diagnosis; Brain Death - diagnostic imaging; Cerebrovascular Circulation; Child; Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; Female; Humans; Intensive care medicine; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Radionuclide study; Human; Electrodiagnosis; Evoked potential; Brain (invertebrata); Death; Diagnosis
• ISSN: 0001-6268; 0942-0940
• DOI: 10.1007/BF01405139

Thirty-three patients fulfilling the clinical criteria for brain death were tested by Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials (BAEP) and Radionuclide Cerebral Angiography and Brain Perfusion Studies. There was a significant correlation between the BAEP and radionuclide study outcomes. All patients with absence of BAEP showed no cerebral perfusion. These findings, added to the clinical findings, resulted in a final diagnosis of brain death in all patients. It is concluded that BAEP and Radionuclide Cerebral Perfusion studies are useful adjuncts for proving that brain death has really occurred.