Variability in Diagnosing Brain Death at an Academic Medical Center

Table 1

Patient demographics.

Total patients	76
Age, y, mean (SD)	43.78 (19.3)
Sex, male, (%)	48 (63.2%)
Race, (%)	56 (73.7%)
White	6 (7.9%)
African American	2 (2.6%)
Hispanic	12 (15.8%)
Others
Mechanism of death, (%)
Intracerebral hemorrhage	26 (34.2%)
Anoxia	24 (31.6%)
Trauma	18 (23.7%)
Stroke	8 (10.5%)

, number; SD, standard deviation.