Brain Death Contestation: A Scoping Review of Occurrences and Management

The second of four articles from our Society of Critical Care Medicine is Contestation of Pediatric Bran Death Task Force is now available here. 

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.