Target Audience
> Medical Interns, Residents, Neurosurgical, Neurology and Critical Care (ICU/ED/Anaesthetic) trainees.
> Nurses working in critical care areas (e.g. ICU and ED)
> Pre-hospital healthcare providers who want more insight into how death and dying from neurological emergencies are managed in the hospital setting
> Medical, nursing and paramedic students rotating through critical care terms
Learning Objectives
By the end of this module you should be able to:
- Understand what death is and the different ways people are certified dead
- Understand the anatomy and physiology of death
- Know an approach to end-of-life care when there is consensus that a neurological emergency is unsurvivable
- Understand the best ways to interact with families in this context
- Understand the fundamentals of the organ donation process
- Understand organ donation after neurological determination of death (also called brain death)
- Know how to certify brain death and manage a brain dead patient
- Know the process of organ donation after circulatory determination of death (circulatory death)
- Understand what happens after a patient dies in this context
