Intensive care nurses have doubts about method for establishing brain death
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 09:50
in Psychology & Sociology
More than half of Sweden's intensive care nurses doubt that a clinical neurological examination can establish that a patient is brain dead. Intensive care nurses also perceive that this uncertainty can affect relatives when the question of organ donation is raised, is reveiled in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.