Death Revisited: Rethinking Death and the Dead Donor Rule  

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Cherry, Mark J. ; Iltis, Ana Smith

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 35 no. 3 (Jun. 2010), page 223-241.
Topik: brain death; dead donor rule; death; neurological criteria; organ transplantation

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.23 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Traditionally, people were recognized as being dead using cardio-respiratory criteria: individuals who had permanently stopped breathing and whose heart had permanenntly stopped breathing were dead. Technological developments in the middle of the twentieth century and the advent of the intensive care unit made it possible to sustain cardio-respiratory and other functions in patients with severe brain injury who previously would have lost such functions permanently shortly after sustaining a brain injury. What could and should physicians caring for such patients do? Significant advances in human organ transplantation also played direct and indirect roles in discussions regarding the care of such patients. Because successful transplantation requires that organs be removed from cadavers shortly after death to avoid organ damage due to loss of oxygen, there has been keen interest in knowing precisely when people are dead so that organ could be removed. Criteria for declaring death using neurological criteria, and the relationship between definitions of death and organ transplantation.

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