| Journal: | Revista médica de Chile |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000423318 |
| ISSN: | 0034-9887 |
| Authors: | Brunser, Alejandro1 Hoppe, Arnold1 Cárcamo, Daniel1 Lavados, Pablo M1 Roldan, Andrés2 Rivas Rodrigo3 Valenzuela, Marcela4 Montes, José Miguel5 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad del Desarrollo, Unidad de Tratamiento del Ataque Cerebrovascular, Santiago de Chile. Chile 2Hospital de Valdivia, Servicio de Neurología, Valdivia. Chile 3Clínica Alemana de Temuco, Servicio de Neurología, Temuco, Cautín. Chile 4Hospital Padre Hurtado, Servicio de Neurología, Santiago de Chile. Chile 5Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Departamento de Paciente Crítico, Santiago de Chile. Chile |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Season: | Abr |
| Volumen: | 138 |
| Number: | 4 |
| Pages: | 406-412 |
| Country: | Chile |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Caso clínico |
| English abstract | Background: The clinical diagnosis of brain death is complex. Aim: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of transcranial Doppler (TCD) for brain death. Patients and Methods: Patients seen on the intensive care unit of a private hospital between January 2004 to December 2008, were included if they were in structural coma, had no craniectomy and had a blind evaluation by a neurologist and TCD done in less than three hours. The diagnosis of brain death was based on a clinical evaluation that considered the absence of sedative drugs, median blood pressure >60 mmHg, body temperature over 35º Celsius and complete absence of brainstem reflexes. An expert neurosonologist, with a TCD-PMD-100, 2 Mhz transducer, used an institutional protocol that considers the examination as positive for brain circulatory arrest when there is presence of reverberating, small systolic peaks or the disappearance of a previous signal present on both middle cerebral arteries and intracranial vertebral arteries. Results: Fifty three patients were evaluated, 25 with clinical brain death. On 45 cases (84.9%), the interval between both evaluations was less than one hour. The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values for the diagnosis of brain death with TCD were 100, 96, 96.1 and 100% respectively. Positive and negative likelihood ratios for brain death were 28 and 0, respectively. Conclusions: TCD is a valid and useful technique for the diagnosis of brain death and can be used on complicated cases |
| Disciplines: | Medicina |
| Keyword: | Diagnóstico, Neurología, Hospitales, Muerte cerebral, Unidades de cuidado intensivo, Doppler transcraneal |
| Keyword: | Diagnosis, Neurology, Hospitals, Brain death, Intensive care units, Transcranial Doppler |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
