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Area of Science:

  • Neurology
  • Medical Ethics
  • Legal Medicine

Background:

  • Brain death is a globally accepted medical and legal concept.
  • Initial reluctance existed regarding pediatric brain death due to concerns about regaining neurologic function.
  • Standardized protocols for brain death determination exist but show global practice variability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To discuss the history and guidelines for brain death determination.
  • To provide an overview of challenges from biophilosophical, ethical, and legal perspectives.
  • To highlight differences in adult versus pediatric brain death determination.

Main Methods:

  • Historical review of brain death concept and criteria development.
  • Analysis of ethical, philosophical, and legal challenges.
  • Comparison of adult and pediatric brain death determination protocols.

Main Results:

  • Pediatric brain death criteria were first proposed in 1987.
  • Substantial variability in global practice for brain death determination persists.
  • Brain death remains a subject of ethical, philosophical, and legal debate.

Conclusions:

  • Providers should endorse Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and Child Neurology Society (CNS) criteria for pediatric brain death diagnosis.
  • Endorsement of guidelines can prevent controversy and subjectivity in defining life versus death.
  • Emerging technologies may influence future directions in brain death determination.