Pro/con ethics debate: When is dead really dead?

Contemporary intensive care unit (ICU) medicine has complicated the issue of what constitutes death in a life support environment. Not only is the distinction between sapient life and prolongation of vital signs blurred but the concept of death itself has been made more complex. The demand for organs to facilitate transplantation promotes a strong incentive to define clinical death in a manner that most effectively supplies that demand. We consider the problem of defining death in the ICU as a function of viable organ availability for transplantation

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Critical Care

• Publication date

  2005-10-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/cc3894PMID 16356234PMCID 1414041
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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