Métodos confirmatórios de morte encefálica: revisão pragmática sobre avaliação de fluxo cerebral
International Journal of Development Research
Métodos confirmatórios de morte encefálica: revisão pragmática sobre avaliação de fluxo cerebral
Received 17th March, 2019; Received in revised form 25th April, 2019; Accepted 07th May, 2019; Published online 30th June, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Bruno Costa da Rocha et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Although there is no standardization in all countries, the criterion of brain death in Brazil follows the legislation recommended by the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM), where the diagnosis consists of two clinical tests, an apnea test and the Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate brain death by means of confirmatory tests. The literature review was carried out by means of a literature review in the PubMed database of works published between 2008 and 2018, using a search tool ("Brain Death") AND ("Diagnosis" [Mesh] OR "Evaluation" "Determination" OR "Criteria") NOT "Transplantation" NOT "Organ donation". Compared to several of the auxiliary tests, a sensitivity of 75%, a specificity of 100% with a positive predictive value of 100%, and a predictive value were compared to the computerized angiotomography (TCA) in the diagnosis of ME. negative of 33%. Therefore, the use of confirmatory methods of BD is fundamental, since failure to diagnose can represent irreparable consequences, and can limit the life of a patient or compromise the viability of possible donors.
