Redefining Death: Urgent Need to Evolve toward a Homogeneous Definition of Death in India
| Autor: | Sonali Vadi, Sunil Shroff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Subject (philosophy) Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing medicine Brainstem death media_common Circulatory-respiratory criteria for death Health professionals Ethical issues business.industry Defining death Legal issues 030208 emergency & critical care medicine medicine.disease humanities Interdependence 030228 respiratory system Homogeneous Commentary Worry business |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine : Peer-reviewed, Official Publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine |
| ISSN: | 0972-5229 |
| Popis: | 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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