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The 17 pages that link to Brain death, each with the reason it gives.

• BrainstemRelated: Brainstem reflexes and breathing are central to clinical assessment of this condition.

• Organ donationRelated: In many jurisdictions, brain death can establish death before organs are recovered.

• Heart transplantationRelated: Its recognition enabled deceased-donor organ donation while supporting ethical safeguards.

• PersonhoodRelated: Its legal use as death separates personhood from the persistence of some bodily functions.

• NeuroethicsRelated: Defining death by neurological criteria raises questions about diagnosis, consent, and the boundary of personhood.

• Medulla oblongataRelated: Assessment includes brainstem functions, though absent medullary reflexes alone do not establish brain death.

• Thomas StarzlRelated: The acceptance of brain-death criteria made deceased-donor organ recovery possible at scale.

• Sanctity of lifeRelated: Its recognition sets a legal and medical boundary for determining when a person has died.

• Christiaan BarnardRelated: Defining donor death was central to obtaining a heart while it remained suitable for transplantation.

• Death (law)Related: It is one of the principal medical findings that can satisfy legal criteria for death.