Brainstem death with persistent EEG activity: evaluation by xenon-enhanced computed tomography.

Abstract:

:A patient with brainstem infarction met the clinical criteria for brain death but had persistent EEG activity, complicating our decision to withdraw life support. We evaluated cerebral blood flow with xenon-enhanced computed tomography (Xe/CT), which documented the absence of posterior circulation flow and persistent, low, anterior circulation flow. This information led us to withdraw life support, despite the presence of EEG activity. The Xe/CT method noninvasively measures local cerebral blood flow and may enhance diagnostic certainty in complicated brain-death evaluations.

journal_name

Crit Care Med

journal_title

Critical care medicine

authors

Darby J,Yonas H,Brenner RP

doi

10.1097/00003246-198705000-00014

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-05-01 00:00:00

pages

519-21

issue

5

eissn

0090-3493

issn

1530-0293

journal_volume

15

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