Navigating the Uncharted and Frozen Waters: Declaring Brain Death in the Post-Hypothermia Patient
Speaker: Jordan Bonomo, MD, FCCM, Associate Professor
Objectives:
- Be able to assess the validity of a clinical brain death exam after therapeutic hypothermia
- Understand the purpose and role of confirmatory testing in brain death patients
- Understand the ethical and moral challenges created by post-arrest therapeutic hypothermia in the determination of brain death
Target Audience: donor coordinators, intensivists, transplant staff