Critical Care Teaching
  • Welcome
  • Week 1: Induction
    • NUH Critical Care
    • UHL Critical Care
  • Airway and breathing
    • Week 2: Airway and oxygenation
    • Week 3: Ventilation
    • Week 4: Weaning and rehabilitation
    • Week 5: Challenging scenarios in ventilation
  • Cardiac disease and physiology
    • Week 6: Cardiovascular manipulation
    • Week 7: Cardiac arrest and post-arrest management
    • Week 8: Cardiology on intensive care
    • Week 9: Renal replacement therapy
  • Neurointensive care
    • Week 10: Head injuries
    • Week 11: Confusion, delirium, and strokes
    • Week 12: Seizures and encephalitis
    • Week 13: Brain stem death, devastating brain injuries, and organ donation
  • Everything else
    • Week 14: Fluids and nutrition
    • Week 15: Surgical principles on intensive care
    • Week 16: Marginal gains and critical care
    • Week 17: Everything sepsis
  • Surgical specialities month
    • Week 18: Upper GI and thoracic surgery
    • Week 19: Major trauma and burns
    • Week 20: Massive intra-abdominal surgery
    • Week 21: Maternity and obstetrics
  • Medical Specialities Month
    • Week 22: Haematology and oncology
    • Week 23: Respiratory medicine
    • Week 24: Microbiology
    • Week 25: End of life care on intensive care
  • Wrapping up
    • Week 26: Reflect, and pay it forward
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  1. Neurointensive care

Week 13: Brain stem death, devastating brain injuries, and organ donation

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What to think about

  • What is death?

  • When do we consider or diagnose it? In who? How?

  • Death by circulatory criteria vs death by neurological criteria

  • Organ donation: What's the ethical and legal basis? How does the consent process work? How does DCD differ from DBD?

  • What happens during an organ retrieval

  • When to involve palliative care

  • Management of devestating brain injuries in the ICU

Resources

  • , and (BJAEd)

  • (LITFL)

  • (FICM, lead by Dr Harvey)

  • (BJAEd)

  • Organ donation after and (BJAEd)

  • (FICM)

  • (Dr Harvey is co-chief investigator - and )

NHSBT website

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No major trials to look at this week, but we instead suggest you have a good read around Dr Gardiner et al's brilliant website (NHSBT)

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Diagnosing death
pitfalls in diagnosing death by neurological criteria
Brain death
Management of devastating brain injuries
Physiological changes after brain-stem death
neurological
circulatory death
Care at the end of life
SIGNET study
do the local training to help out
deceased donation
Donation after brainstem death
Donation after circulatory death
Donor optimisation
End of life care
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