Deciding the fate of a patient on life support with a severe brain injury is an agonizing choice for family members, and a challenging one for doctors. Left too long, a person can slide into a ...

BRAIN DEATH IS DEFINED AS THE COMPLETE AND IRREVERSIBLE absence of all brain function. It is diagnosed by means of rigorous testing at the bedside. The advent of neurologic or brain death criteria to ...

The case that occurred in 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, has just been described in “The halachic heartbeat at the edge of life: navigating maternal brain death and fetal life.” A.S., a pregnant, ...

Background: Hospital mortality has decreased over time for critically ill patients with various forms of brain injury. We hypothesized that the proportion of patients who progress to neurologic death ...