The Globe and Mail | Brain death on the decline in Canada: study The Globe and Mail From 2002 to 2012, the proportion of brain-injured patients in southern Alberta who deteriorated to neurologic death (brain death) declined from 8.1 per cent to 4.2 per cent – a 50-per-cent reduction, noted study author Dr. Andreas Kramer, a clinical ... Brain death decline may explain fall in organ donations Brain death rates drop Fewer 'brain dead' patients means drop in organ donations |