DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i03.012

Pages: 1096-1098

The purpose of our study is in assessing the brain-death notices that have occurred in Hatay Antakya State Hospital and in highlighting the changes that have taken place over a five-year period. Data from 82 patients who were diagnosed with brain death in the intensive care unit of Hatay Antakya State Hospital in the five-year period from 2009– 2013 have been examined retrospectively. The age, sex, hospitalization diagnosis, Glasgow coma scale, acute physiology and chronical health evaluation 2 score, comorbidity estimates, the presence of traumatic brain injury, and the cause of brain death information on the patients were recorded.The most frequent cause of brain death was head trauma due to firearm injuries, at 38 patients. Traumatic brain injury was present in 56.3% of the cases. The number of brain-death notices reached its highest level in 2013, with 39 patients. Two patients became donors and gave their organs in the fiveyear period. Thirty-one out of 39 notices in 2013 were for Syrian patients. Our brain-death notices have increased due to regional factors over the last few years.