Brain Death Contestation: A Scoping Review of Its Incidence and Management
Clinicians report encountering BD/DNC contestation. Detailed, flexible management approaches are necessary, but data and recommendations to guide management are lacking. Understanding optimal responses is impeded by the variable circumstances and family actions that are described as contestation. Adequately developing and disseminating management strategies will require consistent definitions and usage of key terms, as well as additional multidisciplinary and participatory scholarship.
Authors
- Kenya Agarwal
- Erica Andrist (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6057-9251)
- Thaddeus Mason Pope (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7163-505X)
- Kate Saylor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6435-329X)
- Christian J. Vercler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2015-4213)
- Heidi R. Flori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-6970)
- Andrew Kiragu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1067-2922)
- Matthew P. Kirschen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3585-2687)
- Christopher L. Carroll
Institutions
- Small Business Administration (US)
- Apple (Israel) (IL)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- University of Florida Health (US)
- Jacksonville University (US)
- A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center (US)
- Michigan Medicine (US)
- Children's Minnesota (US)
- St. Mary's Hospital (US)
- C. S. Mott Children's Hospital (US)
- University of Florida Health Science Center (US)
- Hamline University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Critical Care Medicine
- Published
- 2025-11-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ccm.0000000000006948
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.88