Early Brain Death Diagnosis by Highend Triplexsonography Assistance

Objective: Early brain death determination is necessary if organ transplantation is optional. Difficult cases of brain death diagnosis and decision making as well as aiming for early diagnosis need additional technical examinations. The goal was to examine the application in brain death determination and the possibility of early diagnosis by bed side examination. Methods: In 70 cases of brain death transcranial highend triplex sonography was applied and analyzed retrospectively. The ALOKA 5000 machine was used with a TCD probe (2.14–3.75MHZ). Additional to the frontobasal, temporal and suboccipital window, trans…