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Managing Brain Death in the ICU Workshop

• What This Programme is About
• What You will Learn
• Who is It For?
• Why Take This Programme?
• How to Apply

What This Programme is About

Certification of brain death is a complex and time consuming multi-step process with many potential pitfalls and confounders. It is also an important responsibility shouldered by clinicians working in intensive care units. Families and loved ones are often overwhelmed by having to deal with the suddenness of the devastating neurologic injury, understanding the concept of brain death and coming to terms with its consequences i.e. withdrawal of therapy or potential organ donation.

To help ICU clinicians deal with these complex issues when managing potentially brain dead patients in the ICU, the Department of Anaesthesiology, TTSH has put together this course which is the advanced version of the basic ‘Nuts and Bolts’ course, which is targeted at non-ICU doctors required to certify brain death in their respective hospitals.

Duration: 0.5 day

What You will Learn

Programme Objectives

• Be updated on Legal Aspects of Organ Donation.
• Able to Conduct of BD tests
• Able to differentiate brain death from other neurological states resembling brain death.
• Role of Brain Death Coordinators
• When should we order supplementary tests

Who is It For?

• Intensivists
• ICU nurses
• Allied Health

Why Take This Programme?

This workshop is about improving communication between healthcare professionals and patients as they face end of life clinical care situations together.

How to Apply

For more details, email to mahanom_ahmad@nhg.com.sg.