%0 Journal Article
%T Brazilian guidelines for the application of transcranial ultrasound as a diagnostic test for the confirmation of brain death
%A Lange
%A Marcos C.
%A Z¨¦tola
%A Viviane H. F.
%A Miranda-Alves
%A Maram¨¦lia
%A Moro
%A Carla H. C.
%A Silvado
%A Carlos E.
%A Rodrigues
%A Daniela L. G.
%A Gregorio
%A Edilene Guiotti di
%A Silva
%A Gisele S.
%A Oliveira-Filho
%A Jamary
%A Perdatella
%A Marco T. A.
%A Pontes-Neto
%A Oct¨˘vio M.
%A F¨˘bio
%A Soraia R. C.
%A Avelar
%A Wagner M.
%A Freitas
%A Gabriel R. de
%J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
%D 2012
%I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
%R 10.1590/S0004-282X2012000500012
%X neurosonological studies, specifically transcranial doppler (tcd) and transcranial color-coded duplex (tccd), have high level of specificity and sensitivity and they are used as complementary tests for the diagnosis of brain death (bd). a group of experts, from the neurosonology department of the brazilian academy of neurology, created a task force to determine the criteria for the following aspects of diagnosing bd in brazil: the reliability of tcd methodology; the reliability of tccd methodology; neurosonology training and skills; the diagnosis of encephalic circulatory arrest; and exam documentation for bd. the results of this meeting are presented in the current paper.
%K transcranial doppler
%K encephalic circulatory arrest
%K brain death.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X2012000500012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en