Editing Brain death (section)

=== United States ===
Brain death is responsible for 2% of all adult and 5% of pediatric in-hospital deaths in the United States.<ref name="Greer">{{cite journal |last1=Greer |first1=David M. |title=Determination of Brain Death |journal=New England Journal of Medicine |date=30 December 2021 |volume=385 |issue=27 |pages=2554–2561 |doi=10.1056/NEJMcp2025326|pmid=34965339 |s2cid=245566906 }}</ref> In a nationwide survey of [[pediatric intensive care unit]]s (PICU) in the United States in 2019; there were more than 3,000 pediatric brain deaths out of a total of more than 15,344 children who died in PICUs. According to a national study, "brain death evaluations are performed infrequently, even in large PICUs."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kirschen|first1=Matthew P.|url= |title=Epidemiology of Brain Death in Pediatric Intensive Care Units in the United States|last2=Francoeur|first2=Conall|last3=Murphy|first3=Marie|last4=Traynor|first4=Danielle|last5=Zhang|first5=Bingqing|last6=Mensinger|first6=Janell L.|last7=Ichord|first7=Rebecca|last8=Topjian|first8=Alexis|last9=Berg|first9=Robert A.|date=May 2019|journal=JAMA Pediatr|volume=173|pages=469–476|doi=10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.0249|issn=2168-6203|oclc=8553840562|pmid=30882855|issue=5|pmc=6503509|last11=Morrison|first11=Wynne|first10=Akira|last10=Nishisaki}}</ref>