Application of Multimodal EEG in the Determination of Brain Death

Abstract

Clinically, if a brain dead patient uses a life support system, the patient can typically be maintained for a few days or even a few months until the heart stops naturally. However, this consumes considerable manpower and material resources, causing serious economic and psychological burdens on the patient’s family and simultaneously wasting social resources. However, if you consider removing the support system, the key issue to be solved is still ensuring that the diagnosis of brain death is accurate. Accurately determining whether a patient has experienced brain death at an early stage is a thorny issue in clinical work. The determination of brain death is a serious process, and its legislation involves many fields, such as morality, ethics, religion, and law. Reliable diagnostic criteria for brain death are not only conducive to scientifically determining the death of a person, maintaining the dignity of the deceased, saving health and medical resources, and reducing the burden on the family, but also for providing better donors for organ transplantation and bringing the hope of survival to more patients to save the lives and health of more people. This chapter briefly describes the concept and related history of brain death, combined with legends, and elaborates on the Chinese brain death criteria and specific steps, including the specific content and determination methods of clinical determination, confirmation test, and spontaneous breathing provocation test, as well as the relevant content determination steps. Frequency is described to help medical workers understand brain death determination and provide guarantee for their clinical decision-making and the successful implementation of organ transplantation.