Paediatric Grand Rounds – Brain-based Definition of Death

DEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS GRAND ROUNDS
April 5, 2023
12 - 1 p.m.

BRAIN-BASED DEFINITION OF DEATH, CRITERIA FOR ITS DETERMINATION & CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

Presenter
Dr. Rishi Ganesan (MBBS, MD, DM)
Paediatric Critical Care

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the hour, participants should be able to

1. Review existing guidelines for death determination

2. Discuss recently updated brain-based definition of death that will clarify that all death is related to brain function

3. Share recently developed evidence-based & expert-informed criteria for death determination after arrest of circulation or neurologic function

4. How does this change (or not change) what we do at the bedside as clinicians?

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