The nurse is caring for an adolescent patient who is dying. The patient's parents are interested in organ donation and ask the nurse how the health care providers determine brain death. Which response by the nurse accurately describes brain death determination?
A) "If CPR does not restore a heartbeat, the brain cannot function."
B) "Brain death has occurred if there is not any breathing or brainstem reflexes."
C) "Brain death has occurred if a person has flaccid muscles and does not awaken."
D) "If respiratory efforts cease and no apical pulse is audible, brain death is present."
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