ICD-11 code : MH10;
Preferred Label : Brain death;
ICD-11 definition : Persistent apnoeic coma due to irreversible cessation brainstem, cerebellar and cortical
activity as seen clinically by no eye opening or eye movement to noxious stimuli,
no motor and verbal response, no brain stem and spinal reflexes corneal, cough, vestibuloocular
and respiratory, and no cerebral electrical activity as seen by EEG, no cerebral blood
flow as seen by cerebral angiogram (conventional, MR, CT, Doppler) and no metabolic
activity evidenced by SPECT or PET lasting for more than 24 hours due to irreversible
diffuse lesion of the brain not due to hypothermia, sedative drug, neuromuscular blocker
overdose or metabolic abnormality without evidence of peripheral circulatory shock.;
Origin ID : 1228918777;
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
Persistent apnoeic coma due to irreversible cessation brainstem, cerebellar and cortical
activity as seen clinically by no eye opening or eye movement to noxious stimuli,
no motor and verbal response, no brain stem and spinal reflexes corneal, cough, vestibuloocular
and respiratory, and no cerebral electrical activity as seen by EEG, no cerebral blood
flow as seen by cerebral angiogram (conventional, MR, CT, Doppler) and no metabolic
activity evidenced by SPECT or PET lasting for more than 24 hours due to irreversible
diffuse lesion of the brain not due to hypothermia, sedative drug, neuromuscular blocker
overdose or metabolic abnormality without evidence of peripheral circulatory shock.