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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description 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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spelling pubmed-67098302019-09-04 Redefining Death: Urgent Need to Evolve toward a Homogeneous Definition of Death in India Vadi, Sonali Shroff, Sunil Indian J Crit Care Med Commentary 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. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2019-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6709830/ /pubmed/31485106 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23220 Text en Copyright © 2019; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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