CT perfusion and CT angiography did not meet sensitivity and specificity thresholds of 98% to determine death by neurologic criteria (commonly referred to as brain death), a cohort study showed.

Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics. Missteps risk either prolonging mechanical support with no prospect of ...

An 8-year-old traumatic brain injury may or may not have led to man's death. June 26, 2009— -- Eight years after he was struck in the back of the head with a baseball bat, a 26-year-old Colorado ...