A patient is admitted with a massive head trauma.The patient is unresponsive and on mechanical ventilation.The electroencephalogram (EEG)is negative for brain waves.The family has agreed to organ donation.How would this organ donor be classified?

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A brain-dead donor is a donor declared dead by neurologic criteria for brain death.Donation after cardiac death is when the donor is declared dead by circulatory criteria for death.A living related donor is a family member related by blood who donates a kidney,portion of the liver,pancreas,intestine,or lung to another family member.A living unrelated donor (directed or nondirected)is a living individual not related to a patient requiring a transplant who donates a kidney,portion of the liver,pancreas,intestine,or lung to that patient.The donor may be anonymous or altruistic.

A Patient Is Admitted with a Massive Head Trauma