Increasing the consent for brain death donor family members

Brain death, cardiac death, and the dead donor rule.

Diagnosis of brain death and donor management.

Despite a widespread acceptance of organ transplant the world over, there is still a lack of conceptual clarity about brain death in severely injured cases. The use of terminology “brain death instead of death creates confusion in the mind of few people that it is only the brain and not the patient that is dead. Health professionals have personal concepts of death that vary widely. In one of th...

Psychological symptoms in family members of brain death patients in intensive care unit in Kerman, Iran.

AIM Having patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) remains an extremely stressful live event for family members, especially for those having to confront with brain death patients. The aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among relatives of brain dead patients in ICU in Kerman, Iran. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, using DASS- 42 questionnair...

Legal Basis for Donating Organs for Brain Death Patients

Brain death involves the complete and irreversible destruction of brain activity characterized by profound coma, apnea and the absence of all brainstem reflexes. The issue of organ transplantation is a very important issue in the field of jurisprudence and law in addition to being one of the issues to be considered and analyzed in the medical world, especially in jurisprudence and the issue has...

آیا مردم تهران با اهدای عضو نزدیکانشان پس از مرگ مغزی موافق هستند؟

The main challenge in organ transplantation is the organ limitation. According to the law of organ donation, it's necessary to obtain family consent for organ donation from a brain-dead patient in addition to patient consent. In this research, we explored Tehran citizens' viewpoints regarding organ donation from beloved ones in case of brain death.In this cross-sectional study, two interviewers...