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Until now, in hypothermic patients, patients under barbiturate therapy etc. brain death can only unequivocally be determined by cerebral panangiography. We evaluated in 41 patients, whether panangiography can be substituted by recording of brain stem auditory evoked potentials in combination with cerebral perfusion scintigraphy. Our results demonstrate, that even if no potential except wave I can be recorded, a minimal intracranial perfusion may exist, so that by definition the patient is not dead. During the course of our investigations we found one patient, in whom disappeared auditory evoked potentials recovered. So we conclude, that the recording of auditory evoked potentials is only an adjunct in determination of brain death, not an objective method as is cerebral panangiography. But recording of auditory evoked potentials is helpful in excluding brain death in certain patients.
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
January 1991,
Electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology,
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
January 1998,
Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska,
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
April 1985,
Revue d'electroencephalographie et de neurophysiologie clinique,
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
January 1989,
Neurosurgical review,
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
January 1988,
Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de reanimation,
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
February 1987,
Anasthesie, Intensivtherapie, Notfallmedizin,
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
July 1985,
Critical care medicine,
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
September 1985,
Annals of neurology,
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
October 1963,
Bulletin of the School of Medicine (Baltimore, Md.),
J Link, and
W Wagner, and
R Rohling
January 2004,
Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology,
