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Mar 16, 2017 · How do doctors define death? A single unifying definition for death is controversial. Currently there are two basic premises for death. The first is biological in that death is defined by irreversible breakdown in the functioning of the human organism as a whole.
- Seamas C. Donnelly
- 2017
Our concepts and practices relating to death will inevitably be influenced by our values and social practices. Our definitions of what constitutes death affect not only what we consider to count as death, but also questions of grieving, medical treatment, estate planning, organ donation, and a myriad of other legal and ethical issues.
Mar 25, 2022 · Almost all (92%) of the HCPs (attending physicians, residents, medical students and nurses) have heard the term “brain death.” When given a description of a brain-dead patient 50% considered the patient dead, 52% would withdraw life support, and 41% would allow organ procurement.
- 10.1097/TXD.0000000000001309
- 2022/04
- Transplant Direct. 2022 Apr; 8(4): e1309.
Nov 29, 2014 · This article initially examines the most commonly proposed positions on when a human being dies those of cardiopulmonary death, whole brain death, brainstem death and higher brain death and for each describes scenarios that provide counter-intuitive results.
- Guy Schofield, Catherine Urch, Justin Stebbing, Georgios Giamas
- 2015
Traditional definitions of medical death are unambiguous, describing a final event that leads to the absolute state of being dead—in which case the biological death of a human being (idem identity) is co-terminus with the social death of the person (ipse identity).
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Jan 1, 2021 · An individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.
