You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Guideline review
Key messages from a guideline
The diagnosis of death by neurological criteria in infants less than 2 months old: RCPCH guideline 2015
  1. Dilshad Marikar
  1. Correspondence to Dr Dilshad Marikar, Department of Paediatrics, Peterborough Hospital, Edith Cavell Campus, Bretton Gate, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE3 9GZ, UK; dilshad.marikar{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-309706

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    This report by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) presents evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) in infants aged between 37 weeks corrected gestation and 2 months post term.

    What do I need to know BEFORE DNC CAN BE CONFIRMED?

    The preconditions specified in the 2008 Academy of Medical Royal College's (AoMRC's) code of practice1 should be fulfilled:

    • The patient is in a coma and requiring mechanical ventilation for apnoea.

    • A diagnosis of structural brain damage …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.