Redefining Death: Urgent Need to Evolve toward a Homogeneous Definition of Death in India

The interdependent circulatory-respiratory criteria and brainstem criteria are used to define death. Continuing life-support in brainstem dead patients is a legal conundrum for the health-care professionals and an ethical worry for the society at large. There is an urgent need to revisit this subjec...

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Autores principales: Vadi, Sonali, Shroff, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6709830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31485106
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23220
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Sumario:The interdependent circulatory-respiratory criteria and brainstem criteria are used to define death. Continuing life-support in brainstem dead patients is a legal conundrum for the health-care professionals and an ethical worry for the society at large. There is an urgent need to revisit this subject to evolve a more uniform definition of death irrespective of the circumstances. A compelling take-home message from this discussion is to spread awareness about brainstem death amongst healthcare professionals HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Vadi S, Shroff S. Redefining Death: Urgent Need to Evolve Toward a Homogeneous Definition of Death in India. Indian J Crit Care Med 2019;23(8):368–370.

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