The established view regarding 'brain death' in medicine and medical ethics is that patients determined to be dead by neurological criteria are dead in terms of a biological conception of death, not a philosophical conception of personhood, a social construction or a legal fiction. Although such individuals show apparent signs of being alive, in reality they are (biologically) dead, though this...

The practice of transplantation of vital organs from "brain-dead" donors is in a state of theoretical disarray. Although the law and prevailing medical ethics treat patients diagnosed as having irreversible total brain failure as dead, scholars have increasingly challenged the established rationale for regarding these patients as dead. To understand the ethical situation that we now face, it is...

background and aim: family psychological support is a highly important concept concerning patients diagnosed with cancer. the purpose of this study was to investigate cancer patients’ perceptions of family psychological support. methods: this study had a qualitative approach using inductive content analysis method. through purposive sampling, 15 patients were selected who underwent semi-structu...

solving the dilemma of the organ shortage in malaysia requires educating malaysians about organ donation and transplantation. this paper aims at exploring the average malaysian households ' preferred channels of campaigns and the preferred campaigners in a family setting, targeting at the dialysis family members.we analyzed the responses of 350 respondents regarding organ donation campaigns. th...

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background: pragmatics is appropriate use of language across a variety of social contexts  that  provides accurate interpretation   of   intentions.   the   occurrence    of   the right hemisphere lesions can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and particularly with the processing of nonliteral speech acts. methods: since the objective of this study was to assess different  aspects of pragmatic...

Hypophosphataemia is known to induce reversible myocardial dysfunction, but the incidence of hypophosphataemia and its effect on myocardial function during brain death are unknown. In 90 consecutive brain-dead patients, we measured plasma concentrations of phosphate and left ventricular ejection fraction area (LVEFa), using transoesophageal echocardiography. In 15 severely hypophosphataemic (< ...