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Brain Death
Altered states of consciousness
● Consciousness – state or quality of awareness or, of
being aware of an external object or something within
oneself.
● Sleep - Normal state of unconsciousness with prompt
reversiblity on thershold sensory stimulus and
maintain wakefulness following recovery.
● Depressed consciousness – supra threshold required
and wakefulness cannot be maintained unless the
stimulation continued
● Stuporous - Arousable only with vigorous noxious
stimuli, while awake cant demonstrate normal
content of consciousness
● Coma - A state of unconsciousness from which
the patient cannot be aroused even with
stimulation such as pressure on the supraorbital
nerve, temporo-mandibular angle of the
mandible, sternum, or nail bed
● Locked-in state - State of paralysis without loss of
consciousness. Patient completely paralysed
except for muslces served by midbrain
structure[e.g. vertical eye movement and
blinking]
● Persistent vegetative state-
- also known as cerebral death.
- normal sleep-wake cycles.
- no response to environmental stimuli.
- diffuse brain injury with preservation of
brain stem function.
Brain death-
● Refers to determination of physical death by
brain based, rather than cardio-pulmonary based
criteria.
● It is defined as a irreversible destruction of the
brain, with the resulting total absence of all
cortical and brainstem functions, although spinal
cord reflexes may remain intact.
● It should not be confused with severe but
incomplete brain damage or with vegetative state
in which some function of vital brain centers still
remains, and decisions regarding on going life
support clearly depend on the wishes of the
patient or his/her proxy.
● Brain death should be suspected in any patient
rendered deeply comatose and apneic from a
profound or diffuse brain insult
● Pathogenesis of brain death- Direct cellular injury
potentiated by a vicious cycle of failure of blood
flow, hypoxia, cerebral acidosis and endothelial
swelling to brain edema,aseptic necrosis and
herniation of the brain.
● When the lower brain herniates through the skull
onto the brainstem and pons, cutting off the
blood supply to the brain.
Prerequisites for testing of brain death
- Clinical or neuro-imaging evidence of acute
catastrophe leading to a diagnosis of brain
death.
-No severe electrolyte , acid base, endocrine
disturbances
- no drug intoxication
- core temperature > 90 degree Farenheit
Brain Death Diagnosis
Made by the separate examination of 2 doctors:
1. One of the doctors must be a specialist recognized by
the appropriate College as having demonstrated skill
and knowledge in the performance of brain death
certification. This should usually be an intensivist,
critical care physician, neurologist or neurosurgeon .
2.The other medical practitioner should preferably be of
the same qualification as described above. but should be
at least 6 years experience & possess the skill and
knowledge in the performance of brain death
certification .
Criteria for CNS Determination of Death
(Brain Death)
● Irreversible coma
● Absence of cortical function
● Absence of brainstem function
● Apnea testing
● 2 examinations with interval according to
patient’s age
Irreversible Coma
● Known etiology and or reversible causes ruled out
● Must have an absence of
● Hypothermia
● Neuromuscular blockade
● Shock or significant hemodynamic instability
● Significant levels of sedatives
● Severe metabolic distrubance
● Poisoning
● Endocrine abnormalities
Absence of cortical functions-
● No spontaneous movement, eye opening, or
movement or response after auditory, verbal, or
visual commands
● Cerebral motor response to pain
● Supraorbital ridge, the nail beds, trapezius
● Motor responses may occur spontaneously
during apnea testing (spinal reflexes)
Absence of brain stem
function-
1)Pupillary reflex
2)Corneal reflex
3)Gag reflex
4)Cough reflex
5)Oculocephalic reflex (doll’s eye reflex)
6)Oculovestibular reflex (caloric reflex)
7)No integrated motor response to pain
8)Apnea testing
Pupils-
● Midsize (4-6 mm), but may be totally dilated
● Absent pupillary light reflex
● Although drugs can influence pupillary size, the
light reflex remains intact only in the absence of
brain death
● IV atropine does not markedly affect response
● Paralytics do not affect pupillary size
● Topical administration of drugs and eye trauma
may influence pupillary size and reactivity
Pupils fixed and unresponsive to light
•Pre-existing ocular anatomic abnormalities may also
confound pupillary assessment in brain death
Corneal reflex-
● Corneal reflexes are absent in brain death
● Corneal reflexes - tested by using a cotton wasp
.
There is no blink response to direct corneal stimulation.
Gag and Cough reflex-
● Both gag and cough reflexes are absent in patients
with brain death
● Gag reflex can be evaluated by stimulating the
posterior pharynx with a tongue blade.
● Cough reflex can be tested by using ETT
suctioning
There is no gag or cough reflex.
Oculocephalic reflex
● Rapidly turn the head 90° on both sides in lying
down position
● Normal response = deviation of the eyes to the
opposite side of head turning
● Brain death = oculocephalic reflexes are absent
(no Doll’s eyes) = no eye movement in response
to head movement
Vestibulo-ocular reflex
● No eye movements within 3 mints after irrigating
each tympanic membrane (if intact) sequentially
with 50 ml ice water for 30 to 45 seconds while the
head of the supine patient is elevated 30 degrees
Retained vestibulocular reflex
Eyes do not deviate away cold water
instilled into an auditory canal.
Cold calorics interpretation
● Not comatose
● Nystagmus seen
● Coma with intact brainstem
● Both eyes tonically deviate away cold water
● No eye movement
● Brainstem injury / death
● Movement only of eye on side of stimulus
● Internuclear ophthalmoplegia
● Suggests brainstem structural lesion
Apnea test-
● Prerequisites:-
- Core temp 36.5°C
- SBP >90 mm Hg
- No electrolyte imbalance
- Arterial pH 7.35-7.45 and pCO2 35-45 mm Hg
- Pre-oxygenation with 100% FiO2for 10 to 15 mints
- Euvolemia
● Give 100% O2 at 8-10 Lpm at the level of carina
immediately after disconnecting the ventilator.
● Observe closely for respiratory movements (abd
and chest excursions)
● Measure pO2, pCO2 and pH after apprx. 3-5 mints
and reconnect the ventilator
● If respiratory movements are absent and final ABG
shows-
- pH<7.30
- pCO2 increases from 40 up to 60 mm Hg or 20
mm Hg from pretest baseline then, Apnea has
been demonstrated, supporting the diagnosis of
brain death criteria.
● If the above criteria are not met and apnea test is
negative - Confirmatory tests are required
Pitfalls in clinical brain death
testing-
● Hypotension, shock, Fluid resuscitation, pressor
agents
● Hypothermia-Warmed fluids, ventilatory warmer
● Intoxication or drug overdose - Serum drug levels
of the drugs given and toxicology screens, or
increase waiting time between brain death
examinations
● Damage to the base of the pons, typically from a
basilar artery embolism, can result in the
development of the so-called locked-in syndrome,
where the patient loses all voluntary movements
with the exception of blinking and vertical eye
movements.
● GBS can involve all peripheral and cranial nerves
and mimic brain death.
● Neuromuscular and sedative drugs, which can
interfere with elicitation of motor responses-
Discontinue muscle relaxants and mood- or
consciousness-altering medications, increase
waiting time between brain-death examinations
● Pupillary fixation, which may be caused by
anticholinergic drugs, neuromuscular blocking
agents, or preexisting disease
● Oculovestibular reflexes diminished after prior use
of ototoxic drugs (e.g., aminoglycosides, loop
diuretics, vancomycin) or agents with suppressive
side effects on the vestibular system (e.g., TCADs,
anticonvulsants and barbiturates) or due to
preexisting disease or any foreign body [e.g blood,
wax]
● Obtain careful medication history
● Doll's eyes examination should not be performed
if the cervical spine is unstable.
● Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or sleep
apnea may result in elevated baseline CO2
retention, confusing the apnea examination
● Certain spinal reflexes including spontaneous
movements of the torso, arms, or toes should be
ignored if the clinical brain stem examination is
consistent with brain death or confirmatory
examinations are positive.
Confirmatory testing-
● Used as a supportive in those patients in whom
specific components of clinical testing cannot be
reliably performed or evaluated.
● Confirmatory test findings are listed in the order
of the most sensitive test first –
● 1)Conventional angiography. No intracerebral
filling at the level of the carotid bifurcation or
circle of Willis .
● 2) Electroencephalography- Absence of any
cerebral activity during at least 30 min of recording
● 3) Transcranial Doppler ultrasound - should show
absent diastolic flow with small early systolic peaks.
● 4) SPECT using Technetium brain scan- No uptake
of isotope in the brain parenchyma
● 5) Somatosensory evoked potentials - Bilateral
absence of response with median nerve stimulation
confirms brain death.
Blood flow is absent in the cranial vault
when examined by cerebral scintigraphy
(shown) or angiography.
● SPECT using Technetium brain scan-
Cerebral perfusion scan
Transcranial doppler for Brain
death
● In Adult 2 examinations at an interval of 30 minutes
if shows cerebral circulatory arrest
● Small systolic peaks in early systole without
diastolic flow in any of MCA, ICA and any artery
of anterior and posterior circulation.
● Intracranial examination should be confirmed
with extra-cranial recording
● Lack of flow in basal arteries can be false positive
TCD and Brain Death
● TCD can be a confirmatory tool for diagnosing brain
death. The validity of TCD diagnosed brain death
depends on the time lapse between brain death and
the performance of TCD. TCD of both the basilar
artery and the MCAs showed significant consistency
in brain death diagnosis.
● The specificity of TCD is close to 100%.
● The sensitivity of TCD is 91-95%. .
Kids over 1 year old
● Absence of all brain and brainstem function
● Comatose: no purposeful response to any stimulus
● Brainstem function is absent when:
● Pupils are mid-position and do not react to light
● Eyes does not blink when touched (corneal reflex)
● Eyes do not rotate in the socket when the head is moved
from side to side (oculocephalic reflex).
● Eyes do not move when ice water is placed in the ear
canal (oculovestibular reflex)
● Child does not cough or gag when a suction tube is
placed deep into the breathing tube
● Child does not breathe when taken off the ventilator
● Repeat in ~6 hours
Children under 1 year
● Necessary to repeat the clinical examination after
an ‘appropriate’ observation period has passed
Age 7 days to 2 months
Two examinations 48 hours apart and one EEG
Age 2 months-1 year
Two examinations 24 hours apart and one EEG or
perfusion scan
● Confirmatory EEG unless it is determined that
there is no blood flow to the brain

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  • 2. Altered states of consciousness ● Consciousness – state or quality of awareness or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. ● Sleep - Normal state of unconsciousness with prompt reversiblity on thershold sensory stimulus and maintain wakefulness following recovery. ● Depressed consciousness – supra threshold required and wakefulness cannot be maintained unless the stimulation continued ● Stuporous - Arousable only with vigorous noxious stimuli, while awake cant demonstrate normal content of consciousness
  • 3. ● Coma - A state of unconsciousness from which the patient cannot be aroused even with stimulation such as pressure on the supraorbital nerve, temporo-mandibular angle of the mandible, sternum, or nail bed ● Locked-in state - State of paralysis without loss of consciousness. Patient completely paralysed except for muslces served by midbrain structure[e.g. vertical eye movement and blinking]
  • 4. ● Persistent vegetative state- - also known as cerebral death. - normal sleep-wake cycles. - no response to environmental stimuli. - diffuse brain injury with preservation of brain stem function.
  • 5. Brain death- ● Refers to determination of physical death by brain based, rather than cardio-pulmonary based criteria. ● It is defined as a irreversible destruction of the brain, with the resulting total absence of all cortical and brainstem functions, although spinal cord reflexes may remain intact.
  • 6. ● It should not be confused with severe but incomplete brain damage or with vegetative state in which some function of vital brain centers still remains, and decisions regarding on going life support clearly depend on the wishes of the patient or his/her proxy. ● Brain death should be suspected in any patient rendered deeply comatose and apneic from a profound or diffuse brain insult
  • 7. ● Pathogenesis of brain death- Direct cellular injury potentiated by a vicious cycle of failure of blood flow, hypoxia, cerebral acidosis and endothelial swelling to brain edema,aseptic necrosis and herniation of the brain. ● When the lower brain herniates through the skull onto the brainstem and pons, cutting off the blood supply to the brain.
  • 8. Prerequisites for testing of brain death - Clinical or neuro-imaging evidence of acute catastrophe leading to a diagnosis of brain death. -No severe electrolyte , acid base, endocrine disturbances - no drug intoxication - core temperature > 90 degree Farenheit
  • 9. Brain Death Diagnosis Made by the separate examination of 2 doctors: 1. One of the doctors must be a specialist recognized by the appropriate College as having demonstrated skill and knowledge in the performance of brain death certification. This should usually be an intensivist, critical care physician, neurologist or neurosurgeon . 2.The other medical practitioner should preferably be of the same qualification as described above. but should be at least 6 years experience & possess the skill and knowledge in the performance of brain death certification .
  • 10. Criteria for CNS Determination of Death (Brain Death) ● Irreversible coma ● Absence of cortical function ● Absence of brainstem function ● Apnea testing ● 2 examinations with interval according to patient’s age
  • 11. Irreversible Coma ● Known etiology and or reversible causes ruled out ● Must have an absence of ● Hypothermia ● Neuromuscular blockade ● Shock or significant hemodynamic instability ● Significant levels of sedatives ● Severe metabolic distrubance ● Poisoning ● Endocrine abnormalities
  • 12. Absence of cortical functions- ● No spontaneous movement, eye opening, or movement or response after auditory, verbal, or visual commands ● Cerebral motor response to pain ● Supraorbital ridge, the nail beds, trapezius ● Motor responses may occur spontaneously during apnea testing (spinal reflexes)
  • 13. Absence of brain stem function- 1)Pupillary reflex 2)Corneal reflex 3)Gag reflex 4)Cough reflex 5)Oculocephalic reflex (doll’s eye reflex) 6)Oculovestibular reflex (caloric reflex)
  • 14. 7)No integrated motor response to pain 8)Apnea testing
  • 15. Pupils- ● Midsize (4-6 mm), but may be totally dilated ● Absent pupillary light reflex ● Although drugs can influence pupillary size, the light reflex remains intact only in the absence of brain death ● IV atropine does not markedly affect response ● Paralytics do not affect pupillary size ● Topical administration of drugs and eye trauma may influence pupillary size and reactivity
  • 16. Pupils fixed and unresponsive to light •Pre-existing ocular anatomic abnormalities may also confound pupillary assessment in brain death
  • 17. Corneal reflex- ● Corneal reflexes are absent in brain death ● Corneal reflexes - tested by using a cotton wasp . There is no blink response to direct corneal stimulation.
  • 18. Gag and Cough reflex- ● Both gag and cough reflexes are absent in patients with brain death ● Gag reflex can be evaluated by stimulating the posterior pharynx with a tongue blade. ● Cough reflex can be tested by using ETT suctioning
  • 19. There is no gag or cough reflex.
  • 20. Oculocephalic reflex ● Rapidly turn the head 90° on both sides in lying down position ● Normal response = deviation of the eyes to the opposite side of head turning ● Brain death = oculocephalic reflexes are absent (no Doll’s eyes) = no eye movement in response to head movement
  • 21.
  • 22. Vestibulo-ocular reflex ● No eye movements within 3 mints after irrigating each tympanic membrane (if intact) sequentially with 50 ml ice water for 30 to 45 seconds while the head of the supine patient is elevated 30 degrees Retained vestibulocular reflex
  • 23. Eyes do not deviate away cold water instilled into an auditory canal.
  • 24. Cold calorics interpretation ● Not comatose ● Nystagmus seen ● Coma with intact brainstem ● Both eyes tonically deviate away cold water ● No eye movement ● Brainstem injury / death ● Movement only of eye on side of stimulus ● Internuclear ophthalmoplegia ● Suggests brainstem structural lesion
  • 25. Apnea test- ● Prerequisites:- - Core temp 36.5°C - SBP >90 mm Hg - No electrolyte imbalance - Arterial pH 7.35-7.45 and pCO2 35-45 mm Hg - Pre-oxygenation with 100% FiO2for 10 to 15 mints - Euvolemia
  • 26. ● Give 100% O2 at 8-10 Lpm at the level of carina immediately after disconnecting the ventilator. ● Observe closely for respiratory movements (abd and chest excursions) ● Measure pO2, pCO2 and pH after apprx. 3-5 mints and reconnect the ventilator
  • 27. ● If respiratory movements are absent and final ABG shows- - pH<7.30 - pCO2 increases from 40 up to 60 mm Hg or 20 mm Hg from pretest baseline then, Apnea has been demonstrated, supporting the diagnosis of brain death criteria.
  • 28. ● If the above criteria are not met and apnea test is negative - Confirmatory tests are required
  • 29. Pitfalls in clinical brain death testing- ● Hypotension, shock, Fluid resuscitation, pressor agents ● Hypothermia-Warmed fluids, ventilatory warmer ● Intoxication or drug overdose - Serum drug levels of the drugs given and toxicology screens, or increase waiting time between brain death examinations
  • 30. ● Damage to the base of the pons, typically from a basilar artery embolism, can result in the development of the so-called locked-in syndrome, where the patient loses all voluntary movements with the exception of blinking and vertical eye movements. ● GBS can involve all peripheral and cranial nerves and mimic brain death.
  • 31. ● Neuromuscular and sedative drugs, which can interfere with elicitation of motor responses- Discontinue muscle relaxants and mood- or consciousness-altering medications, increase waiting time between brain-death examinations ● Pupillary fixation, which may be caused by anticholinergic drugs, neuromuscular blocking agents, or preexisting disease
  • 32. ● Oculovestibular reflexes diminished after prior use of ototoxic drugs (e.g., aminoglycosides, loop diuretics, vancomycin) or agents with suppressive side effects on the vestibular system (e.g., TCADs, anticonvulsants and barbiturates) or due to preexisting disease or any foreign body [e.g blood, wax] ● Obtain careful medication history
  • 33. ● Doll's eyes examination should not be performed if the cervical spine is unstable. ● Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or sleep apnea may result in elevated baseline CO2 retention, confusing the apnea examination ● Certain spinal reflexes including spontaneous movements of the torso, arms, or toes should be ignored if the clinical brain stem examination is consistent with brain death or confirmatory examinations are positive.
  • 34. Confirmatory testing- ● Used as a supportive in those patients in whom specific components of clinical testing cannot be reliably performed or evaluated. ● Confirmatory test findings are listed in the order of the most sensitive test first – ● 1)Conventional angiography. No intracerebral filling at the level of the carotid bifurcation or circle of Willis .
  • 35. ● 2) Electroencephalography- Absence of any cerebral activity during at least 30 min of recording ● 3) Transcranial Doppler ultrasound - should show absent diastolic flow with small early systolic peaks. ● 4) SPECT using Technetium brain scan- No uptake of isotope in the brain parenchyma ● 5) Somatosensory evoked potentials - Bilateral absence of response with median nerve stimulation confirms brain death.
  • 36. Blood flow is absent in the cranial vault when examined by cerebral scintigraphy (shown) or angiography.
  • 37. ● SPECT using Technetium brain scan- Cerebral perfusion scan
  • 38. Transcranial doppler for Brain death ● In Adult 2 examinations at an interval of 30 minutes if shows cerebral circulatory arrest ● Small systolic peaks in early systole without diastolic flow in any of MCA, ICA and any artery of anterior and posterior circulation. ● Intracranial examination should be confirmed with extra-cranial recording ● Lack of flow in basal arteries can be false positive
  • 39. TCD and Brain Death ● TCD can be a confirmatory tool for diagnosing brain death. The validity of TCD diagnosed brain death depends on the time lapse between brain death and the performance of TCD. TCD of both the basilar artery and the MCAs showed significant consistency in brain death diagnosis. ● The specificity of TCD is close to 100%. ● The sensitivity of TCD is 91-95%. .
  • 40. Kids over 1 year old ● Absence of all brain and brainstem function ● Comatose: no purposeful response to any stimulus ● Brainstem function is absent when: ● Pupils are mid-position and do not react to light ● Eyes does not blink when touched (corneal reflex) ● Eyes do not rotate in the socket when the head is moved from side to side (oculocephalic reflex). ● Eyes do not move when ice water is placed in the ear canal (oculovestibular reflex) ● Child does not cough or gag when a suction tube is placed deep into the breathing tube ● Child does not breathe when taken off the ventilator ● Repeat in ~6 hours
  • 41. Children under 1 year ● Necessary to repeat the clinical examination after an ‘appropriate’ observation period has passed Age 7 days to 2 months Two examinations 48 hours apart and one EEG Age 2 months-1 year Two examinations 24 hours apart and one EEG or perfusion scan ● Confirmatory EEG unless it is determined that there is no blood flow to the brain