Notification of brain death in the hospital

Abstract

Objective: to identifying brain death in the hospital. Methods: it is a cross sectional and quantitative study which analyzedsecondary data extracted from the notified brain death registers and from the medical records of the eligible patients. Thedata were processed and analyzed through descriptive statistics and comparisons. Results: of the 64 cases of notifications,the male gender predominated (67.2%) within the age range from 40 to 59 years (64.1%). There was a greater proportion(71.8%) of causes of death related to Hemorrhagic Cerebral Vascular Accident and Traumatic Brain Injury caused bymotorcycle accident, showing statistically significant difference (p<0.05) regarding the gender, age and location. Conclusion:the Hemorrhagic Cerebral Vascular Accident was the most prevalent cause of notification of brain death and the IntensiveTherapy Unit was the most notified venue.