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The ethics of donation and transplantation: are definitions of death being distorted for organ transplantation?
A recent commentary defends 1) the concept of 'brain arrest' to explain what brain death is, and 2) the concept that death occurs at 2–5 minutes after absent circulation. I suggest that both these claims are flawed. Brain arrest is said to threaten life, and lead to death by causing a seco...
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BioMed Central
2007
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2211498/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18036254 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-2-28 |