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Professional Development Programme for Organ Donation
Diagnosis of Death Masterclass
Alex ManaraDale GardinerPaul Murphy
31 March 2010
“Improving organ donation within your hospital”
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Diagnosis of Death MasterclassThe six big wins
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Diagnosis of Death Masterclass
2. Increased diagnosis of brain stem death
3. Increased donation after cardiac death
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Incidence of Brainstem Death on ICU(< 75 years, non-cardiac ICUs)
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Incidence of Brainstem Death on ICU(< 75 years, non-cardiac ICUs)
• 350 missed potential donors
• 172 actual donors
• 619 additional transplanted patients
• Extra 2.8 donors pmp
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Diagnosis of Brainstem Death
Reasons for not testing (approx 650 / year)
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Diagnosis of Brainstem Death
Difficulties with BSD testing
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• Significant regional variation
– Only 50% of suitable patients given the option of NHBD
• Significant clinical variation
– Diagnosis of death
– warm ischaemic times
– organ retrieval
Is NHBD organ donation maximised in the UK?
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The Potential Donor Audit has been assessing the potential for NHBD in the UK for the last five years. The map below shows NHB donor numbers by DTC region for 2009.
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Aims:
1. Promote national consistency in the use of the criteria used to diagnose death.
2. You to feel confident in the criteria used to diagnose death whilst being alert to potential pitfalls.
3. For you to be aware of potential criticisms by colleagues and the literature and have thought about possible counter arguments.
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Agenda
1 Introduction 09.30-09.45
2 Diagnosis of Death: A defence of the British criteria 09.45-10.15
3 Quiz: Dead or not dead? 10.15-10.30
Break 10.30-10.40
4 The confirmation of death 10.40-11.15
5 Case study activity 11.15-12.15
6 Questions 12.15-12.25
7 Summary & close 12.25-12.30
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UK criticsDavid EvansDavid HillPhilip Keep
Critics
Rinaldo Bellomo
Margaret Lock
Alan Shewmon
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Edmund Pellegrino
Peter Singer
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Criteria for Human Death
= The irreversible cessation of brain-stem function
=> Irreversible unconsciousness + Irreversible apnoea
=> intra-cranial or extra-cranial cause
DO NOT restore Cerebral Circulation
=> 5 mins absent cerebral circulation
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Transplant Technique• Split livers• Marginal Donors
Immunosuppressants• Tacrolimus• Mycophenolate
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Brain Death
Cushing1st Renal auto-Tx(unsuccessful)
TransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
TransplantsTransplantsTransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
1902
The Concept of Brain Death Did Not Evolve to Benefit Organ Transplants.
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Brain Death
TransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
TransplantsTransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
1902
The Concept of Brain Death Did Not Evolve to Benefit Organ Transplants.
1st xeno-Tx (unsuccessful)
EEG discovered In electric potential =
Death
Loss cortical potentials seen in ischaemia1st Renal cadaveric Tx
(unsuccessful)1950
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Brain Death
TransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
TransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
The Concept of Brain Death Did Not Evolve to Benefit Organ Transplants.
1950 Cessation of brain blood flow = Death
Cortical circulatory arrest seen in coma patients
1st successful live Renal Tx
1960Death of the nervous system
= Coma dépassé
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Brain Death
TransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
TransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
The Concept of Brain Death Did Not Evolve to Benefit Organ Transplants.
19601st successful
cadaveric Renal Tx
Irreversible cessation of the EEG= Death
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Brain Death
TransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
TransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
The Concept of Brain Death Did Not Evolve to Benefit Organ Transplants.
1967-68
1st successful Heart Tx
Harvard CriteriaBrain Death = DEATH
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Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical SchoolJAMA
5th Aug 1968
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‘Our Primary purpose is to define irreversible coma as a new criterion for death…
…Obsolete criteria for the definition of death can lead to controversy in obtaining organs for transplantation.’
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Brain Death
TransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
TransplantsTransplantsTransplantsTransplantsTransplants
Transplants
The Concept of Brain Death Did Not Evolve to Benefit Organ Transplants.
Future
1st xeno Tx
1st lab grown organ Tx
Brain Death = DEATH
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Brain Stem Death
UK
Whole Brain Death
Rest of the World
Higher Brain DeathPhilosophers
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Whole Brain Death
Rest of the World
Rinaldo BellomoICM 2004
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Doctors fight to save brain-dead mom’s foetus...
… for 3½ months
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The inferior hypophysial artery is an artery supplying the posterior pituitary gland. It is a branch of the cavernous carotid artery (internal carotid artery) which is extradural at this point.
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Criteria for Human Death
= The irreversible cessation of brain-stem function
=> Irreversible unconsciousness + Irreversible apnoea
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‘Although we were unable to restore his consciousness or spontaneous breathing, the boy lived several more years.’
(page 195)
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trauma unit PET scan brainno blood flowingUnited Regional
Healthcare System Wichita Falls, Texas
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USA Trauma Center Level I - Highest toLevel III - Lowest
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Criteria for Human Death
= The irreversible cessation of brain-stem function
=> Irreversible unconsciousness + Irreversible apnoea
=> intra-cranial or extra-cranial cause
DO NOT restore Cerebral Circulation
=> 5 mins absent cerebral circulation
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75 seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes
2 minutes
5 minutes
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3.7 days old donor
Taken to the operating room
Lined and given heparin
Extubated & sedated
Waited 75 seconds of PEA
“Best interests of the recipient”
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Question 1
1. The patient flexes their arm at the elbow following
imposition of a painful stimulus to the nail bed on that
side?
Dead - May represent a spinal reflex
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Question 2
2. The ventilator registers the patient as making
spontaneous respirations?
Dead - May represent the heart beat creating flow
that is triggering ventilation
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Question 3
3. The patient has a generalised tonic clonic seizure?
NOT brain stem dead – the patient must have intact
neural connections to have a grand mal fit
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Question 4
4. The patient’s pulse increases from 70bpm to 110 bpm
during apnoea testing?
Dead - Hypercarbia (which occurs during apnoea
testing) results in endogenous adrenaline release.
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Question 5
5. There is slow drift of one eye away from the ear in which
cold water is injected?
NOT brain stem dead – any eye movements in
response to caloric testing signifies the presence of
some reflex brain stem arc function.
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Question 6
6. The patient sits up during apnoea testing (Lazarus sign)?
Dead - A spinal reaction to the acidosis which
follows hypercarbia. Very unsettling and disturbing!
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How are you going?
These six questions were asked in the Australian JFICM
exam 2008 and the pass rate was only 65%!
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Question 7
7. During an apnoea test on a mechanical ventilator after
20 seconds the patient starts to breathe and then
continues to breathe at 16 breaths per minute?
Dead – ventilator apnoea ventilation has kicked in.
Are you convinced not to do your apnoea tests still
connected to the ventilator?
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Question 8
8. Supra-orbital painful stimulus leads to movement in one
of the arms?
Not dead – although one primarily looks for
movement in the cranial nerve distribution one must
actively ensure (by repetition) that this was a
coincidental spinal reflex but until proven this may
represent the patient is not brain stem dead.
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Question 9
9. During the second set of brain stem testing the second
clinician finds the ears full of wax and can't visualise the
drum?
Not dead – this finding may invalidate the first
oculovestibular test and thus the patient may not be
dead.
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Question 10
10.Due to left orbital trauma you can't visualise or observe
the left eye?
Dead – may still be dead even if one can’t carry out
the full test. Some of the options we discuss in our
case based discussions after morning tea.
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Question 11
10.After a complete set of brain stem tests, confirming
clinical brain stem death, your colleague organises a CT
angiogram which reveals persisting intracerebral blood
flow?
Dead – Brain Stem Death is the UK Criteria
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Confirming Death
• Cessation of heart beat
• Cessation of breathing
• Unresponsiveness
• Relatively easy to make
• Reproducible
• Recognizable
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Confirming Death: What the public think...
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The Law
• There is no statutory definition of death in the United Kingdom
(Unlike USA)
• The determination of death using neurological criteria has been
accepted by the courts of England and Wales.
• Otherwise you’re dead when a doctor says so = accepted medical
practice
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Definition of death
“The irreversible loss of those essential characteristics which are necessary to the existence of a living human person”
=
“The irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness, combined with the irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe”
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All Death is Brain Death
1. Cardio-respiratory determination of death
2. Neurological determination of death
3. Somatic determination of death
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Cardio-respiratory criteria
“The heart and lung are not important as basic prerequisites to continue
life but rather because the irreversible cessation of their functions shows
that the brain has ceased functioning”
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Cardio-respiratory criteria
• Need to be applicable to primary care / out of hospital setting
• Simultaneous and irreversible onset of apnoea, and
unconsciousness in the absence of a circulation.
• Irreversible cessation of brain stem function rapidly follows
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Preconditions for cardiac criteria
• Decision made to abandon CPR
• The individual meets the criteria for not attempting CPR (ROLE)
• Active treatment is being withdrawn as declared not in the patient’s
best interests
• Patient has an advance directive refusing CPR
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At “asystole”
• Person confirming death present and continuously observes apnoea,
asystole and unresponsiveness for a minimum of 5 minutes
• Absent circulation confirmed clinically or with monitors
• Return of circulation or respiration prompts start of a further 5
minutes from point of next cardio-respiratory arrest
• Confirm absent pupillary and corneal reflexes and no central
response to pain
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At “asystole”
• Person confirming death present and continuously observes apnoea,
asystole and unresponsiveness for a minimum of 5 minutes
• Absent circulation confirmed clinically or with monitors
• Return of circulation or respiration prompts start of a further 5
minutes from point of next cardio-respiratory arrest
• Confirm absent pupillary and corneal reflexes and no central
response to pain
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Irreversibility
• Heart will not be restarted because patient not for CPR
• Cardiac activity will not resume spontaneously
• Cannot be restarted even with CPR
No post-mortem procedures that have the potential to restore cerebral perfusion
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Post mortem Interventions
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_108827.pdf
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Post Mortem Interventions
Anything that places the person at risk of serious harm or distress is
unlikely ever to be in the person’s best interests. (CPR, femoral
cannulation, heparinisation)
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International Differences
• 2 minutes
Pittsburgh protocol 1993
ANZICS
• Minimum of 2 minutes, no more than 5 minutes recommended
Society of Critical Care Medicine, USA
• Minimum of 5 minutes:
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges UK
Intensive Care Society, UK
Institute of Medicine, USA
Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation
• Minimum of 10 minutes
Maastricht Conference, Holland
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80 year old male with pancreatitis, cerebral infarction and MRSA sepsisCPR abandoned - Doctor went to showerIPPV continuedROSC noted on return at 5 minutesPatient died 2 days later
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Lazarus?
Is auto-resuscitation a result of not having a standardised way of
confirming death and also defining what can and cannot happen after
death?
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Neurological Determination of Death in UK
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History
• Improved ICU care of comatose
patients
• Coma depassé described in
Paris in 1959
• Deep irreversible coma
• Nearly always followed by
cardiac arrest
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Cardiac Prognosis After NDD
Pallis 1987:
1300 patients all developed cardiorespiratory arrest even with full
support
Hung et al 1995:
•73 adults and children
• Full and continued CVS support
• All became asystolic; within 10 days
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Rationale for New Guidelines
• Variable practice when
guidelines not specific
• Guidelines not always followed
even when specific
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New Guidelines
• Published 2008
• Attempts further standardisation
• Primarily a clinical diagnosis
• Clinical judgement still required
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Neurological Determination of Death in UK
1. Patient in deep apnoeic coma
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Neurological Determination of Death in UK
2. Known cause capable of causing ND
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Neurological Determination of Death in UK
• Primary hypothermia
• Metabolic disturbances
• Alcohol
• Depressant drugs
• Muscle relaxants
3. No reversible causes / confounding factors
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Neurological Determination of Death in UK
• Temperature > 34o C
• Na+ < 160 mmol/L
• K+ > 2 mmol/L
• Glucose > 3 mmol/L < 20mmol/L
• Phosphate > 0.5 mmol/L < 3 mmol/L
• Magnesium
3. No reversible causes / confounding factors - Metabolic
Serum Na+ > 115mmol/L?
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Neurological Determination of Death in UK
• Clinical judgement essential
• Impossible to create rules covering every situation
• Difficulties mainly with thiopentone and midazolam
• Plasma concentrations not good predictors of effect
• Use of antagonists may help
• Ideally use non cumulative drugs – propofol, remifentanil
3. No reversible causes / confounding factors - Sedatives
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Neurological Determination of Death in UK
4. Absent brainstem reflexes
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Neurological Determination of Death in UK
• Must be done last after other reflexes absent
• Undertaken no more than twice
• Achieve CVS stability at PaCO2 > 6kPa before disconnection
• Disconnect for 5 minutes
• Return PaCO2 to normal on reconnection
Apnoea Test
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Neurological Determination of Death in UK
• 4 vessel cerebral angiography
• CT angiography
• MRI angiography
• EEG
• TCD
• SPECT
• Brain stem evoked potentials
• Response to 2mg atropine
• ICP > MAP
5. Ancillary Tests
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Whole Brain Death ?
http://video.bloodservices.ca/Streaming/nddvideo/
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Reducing Variability in Practice
• Guidelines – Helpful but limited value
• CLODs – Professional Development Programme
• Development of international approach to confirmation
• Prospective observational studies on onset of asystole
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Case Study Exercise
• We have 2 case studies which we would like you to discuss and
respond to in your table groups
• You each have a handout of the 2 case studies which provide a case
context and a series of questions
• We will spend 30 mins total on each case study, 15mins to discuss &
answer questions and15 mins to feedback as a wider group
• This part of the session will take an hour to complete and will be
followed by a more general Q&A
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Case Study 1
A middle-aged woman presents to your Emergency Department at 1600
after collapsing at home. She has fixed pupils and is intubated without
drugs. CT head reveals catastrophic subarachnoid haemorrhage.
Neurosurgical opinion is that this is an unsurvivable situation and
withdrawal of life sustaining treatment is advised. The family approach
the ED staff suggesting their relative would wish to be an organ donor.
Brain death is suspected.
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Case Study 2
A young man is admitted to your neuro-critical care unit with severe
traumatic brain injury. Despite aggressive treatment his pupils fix after
four days and irreversible cessation of brain stem function (brain stem
death) is suspected.
He has received substantial doses of sedatives (midazolam, alfentanil
and propofol).