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In which country is it required that a physician perform an EEG prior to declaring death?
by carbocation 15y ago
In which country is it required that a physician perform an EEG prior to declaring death?
- csomar 15y agoI don't know. I'm a medical student in Tunisia. Here, in order to claim that a patient is dead you need to show its' EEG graph. Well, what's happening is something else.
- mikaelgramont 15y agoAn EEG is probably necessary for official reasons, before a "certificate of death" can be issued. But there is a point where the emergency rescuers have to give up, and it probably takes hours before the EEG can be done.
- sp332 15y agoMaybe when the person is already on life support, and you're trying to make a decision about whether the person is "dead" even if most of their organs are alive.