Strengths and Limitations
brain injury
BRAIN DEATH, CARDIAC ARREST
Strengths of this study include the development of a clinical practice guidelineThis study also has several limitations. First, some of the checklist goals (lung-protective ventilation and glycemic control) have a low likelihood of preventing cardiac arrest. Second, the use of a checklist to improve donor management is only one of the many factors that affect clinical outcomes. Third, the relatively high rate of cardiac arrests stemmed from the early inclusion of patients in their course from brain injury to organ donation, after the first formal clinical examination that ascertained brain death.