'Wave of death' is not a herald of brain death
Monday, July 18, 2011 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
The strong wave-shaped signal that can be measured in the brains of rats whose oxygen supply has been abruptly cut off is not a herald of brain death. The measurement of such a signal is also not a reliable new indication for medical personnel to use in establishing brain death in humans, for example when making a decision whether to carry out organ transplantation. Researchers have made this conclusion on the basis of a computational model.