Brazilian guidelines for the application of transcranial ultrasound as a diagnostic test for the confirmation of brain death

• Autor(a) principal: Lange,Marcos C.
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Zétola,Viviane H. F., Miranda-Alves,Maramélia, Moro,Carla H. C., Silvado,Carlos E., Rodrigues,Daniela L. G., Gregorio,Edilene Guiotti di, Silva,Gisele S., Oliveira-Filho,Jamary, Perdatella,Marco T. A., Pontes-Neto,Octávio M., Fábio,Soraia R. C., Avelar,Wagner M., Freitas,Gabriel R. de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2012000500012
• topic: transcranial Doppler; encephalic circulatory arrest; brain death

Neurosonological studies, specifically transcranial Doppler (TCD) and transcranial color-coded duplex (TCCD), have high level of specificity and sensitivity and they are used as complementary tests for the diagnosis of brain death (BD). A group of experts, from the Neurosonology Department of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology, created a task force to determine the criteria for the following aspects of diagnosing BD in Brazil: the reliability of TCD methodology; the reliability of TCCD methodology; neurosonology training and skills; the diagnosis of encephalic circulatory arrest; and exam documentation for BD. The results of this meeting are presented in the current paper.