Organ Donation/Recovery

[J. B.]

Do you believe that Brain Death is death and that it is irreversable?

[J. B.]

Does anyone know what Brain Death is and how it is determined and diagnosed?

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

John Brain death is irreversible - and death is inevitable. In the early days of ventilation before brain death was organised into a diagnosis some brain dead patients were kept alive on the ventilator - they either arrested within 3 weeks of brain death occuring or they suffered multiple organ failure and and gradual ceasation of viability. Does this answer your question??