Pro/con ethics debate: When is dead really dead?
DOI
10.1186/cc3894
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
12-1-2005
Publication Title
Critical Care
Volume
9
Issue
6
First Page
538
Last Page
542
ISSN
13648535
Abstract
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. © 2005 BioMed Central Ltd.
Open Access
Gold
Repository Citation
Whetstine, L., Streat, S., Darwin, M., & Crippen, D. (2005). Pro/con ethics debate: When is dead really dead?. Critical Care, 9 (6), 538-542. https://doi.org/10.1186/cc3894