Virginia: Easing Standards for Declaration of Brain Death – and Increasing Errors
…ute at JFK Medical Center in Edison,said he is concerned about brain death rulings coming from doctors whomay not be properly trained. For example, it is important to decipher whether a patient’s response is the resultof real brain activity or a spinal reflex, he said. More… Michael Williams, an associate professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, believes most hospitals – including his – still prefer a neurologist or another expert doc…