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18 lis 2021 · To identify the moment of death is vital to avoid the use of unnecessary medical intervention on a patient who has already died and to ensure the organ donation process, clear and transparent.
18 lis 2021 · The full version of death includes three unique ingredients such as the definition of death, yardstick of brain death, and the tests to prove that the standard has been satisfied. The definition of death is typically a philosophical task, while the criteria and tests are medical tasks.
25 mar 2022 · The papers meeting inclusion criteria pieced together the historical evolution of the death definition, from the traditional circulatory criteria, to the nuanced concepts of BD and circulatory death, to the more recent initiative to achieve uniformity in the BD definition.
This examination concludes that death itself is a social construct and that, in a pluralistic society such as ours, a conclusive definition of death or determination of the moment of death is out of the reach of both medical science and philosophy.
Healthcare Professionals’ Understandings of the Definition and Determination of Death: A Scoping Review. Transplantation Direct, Vol. 8, Issue. 4, p. e1309.
17 lip 2024 · We argue for acceptance of a neurological criterion for determining death on grounds that it is the most reasonable way to synthesize biological, ethical, and social considerations about our death.. Keywords: Death; brain death. civil death; criteria for determining death. ethical considerations in determining death. decapitation gambit.
This new approach to defining death promised not only to relieve the burden of hopeless treatment from patients, families, and hospitals, but also to eliminate “controversy in obtaining organs for transplantation” by
