Brain Death & Unrepresented Patients - Professor Pope at SCCM

Here's a new record for me. I attended multiple days of a major professional society conference (SCCM) without using a single slide. Not one. Contrast that to the usual 1200. 

First, in this session below, we had multiple tables discuss and vote on how to approach care for an unrepresented patient. We then debriefed each case. This was an unusually high level of interactivity. And it proved valuable and enjoyable. 

Second, I moderated a roundtable where critical care clinicians shared challenges that they have faced with determination of death by neurologic criteria (brain death). Some clinicians explained why they deviate from AAN guidelines and make determinations in ways they judge superior. Others explained how their risk averse hospital prohibits BD/DNC testing if the family opposes even though nothing in state law demands that.