Cessation of medical support and the issue of authorization in patients diagnosed as brain death

Autor:	Selma Tepehan, İmdat Elmas
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Medical support business.industry Intensive care Significant difference medicine Authorization In patient General Medicine Medical emergency medicine.disease business Ethical values Legal death
Zdroj:	Bakirkoy Tip Dergisi / Medical Journal of Bakirkoy. :207-212
ISSN:	1305-9327 1305-9319
DOI:	10.5350/btdmjb201612406
Popis:	Objective: Considering brain death as legal death plays an important role in both provision of organ transplants and cessation of medical support. Another aspect of this issue is to decide who will have authorization for cessation of medical support. In this study, medical, legal and ethical aspects of the issue were dealt with data collected through a questionnaire. Material and Methods: Volunteering 279 nurses and 179 doctors working in intensive care units of research and education hospitals in Istanbul completed the questionnaire. Obtained data were statistically analyzed and available regulations, medical requirements and ethical values regarding brain death were examined based on results of the analyses. Results: Of all the participants, 40.9% of the nurses and 5.6% of the doctors agreed that diagnosis of brain death should allow cessation of medical support. Forty-three percent of the nurses and 55.9% of the doctors thought that patients whose brain death has occurred should be withdrawn from life support systems and devices so that other patients in need can benefit from them, with a significant difference (p
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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