Doctors Seek Organ Donation From Deaths Outside of Hospitals

Wisconsin State Journal - James Bernat, professor of neurology and medicine and the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience, is quoted in an article discussing how some doctors are advocating for a new type of organ donation — from people who die of cardiac arrest at home, in emergency rooms or other places outside of inpatient hospital units. "Detailed neurologic examinations to directly establish 'brain death' usually cannot be performed ... in the few minutes available," says Bernat. Read more...