Abstract
This study is aimed at identifying the role of the nursing team in the care of patients with brain death in the Intensive Care Units (ICU), highlighting the essential conduct to maintain the potential donor, provide family care, and control all vital functions until the time of organ donation. This is a literature review with an exploratory objective, including articles from electronic journals and literary works. The study concludes that the intensivist team plays a very important role in maintaining the vital functions of the potential donor, being necessary that they have a strong understanding of all aspects of brain death, as well as scientific and ethical knowledge, because the viability of the organs or tissues to be donated depends directly on proper conservation.
Brain death; Transplantation-Tissue and organ procurement; Nursing care-Living donors; Intensive care units