Confirmation of Brain Death at Bedside by Isotope Angiography
- Julius M. Goodman, MD;
- Larry L. Heck, MD
Abstract
Documentation of the absence of cerebral circulation is useful as a confirmatory test of brain death. Intravenous isotope angiography performed at the bedside with a mobile γ camera is a safe, convenient, rapid, reliable, and easily understood method of proving the absence of cerebral blood flow that occurs in brain death.
(JAMA 238:966-968, 1977)
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