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Brain death and true patient care.
The "brain death" standard as a criterion of death is closely associated with the need for transplantable organs from heart-beating donors. Are all of these potential donors really dead, or does the documented evidence of patients destined for organ harvesting who improve, or even recover to live normal lives, call into question the premise underlying "brain death"? The aim of this paper is to ...
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Background and Aim: Caring for patients with diagnosis of brain death is one of the heaviest duties for nurses, and due to the importance of organ donation is one of the biggest challenges of nursing in the intensive care unit. This qualitative research aimed to investigate the experience of nurses in care for brain death patients. Materials and Methods:The present study was a qualitative rese...
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The term "brain death" has ties to medical, legal, ethical, and philosophical discourse, and is therefore a complicated and potentially ambiguous term. Some state that with brain death a person no longer has a "master regulating" organ integrating his or her organism as a whole, and the proponents of this view equate this loss of integration with clinical death. Others believe this is not a ten...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Linacre Quarterly
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0024-3639,2050-8549
DOI: 10.1080/00243639.2016.1188472