New guidance on brain death could ease debate over when life ends
This clarity may help identify when the brain has stopped working, completely and irrevocably
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As part of the World Brain Death Project, an international group of doctors has written guidelines that help identify whether a person’s brain no longer functions, completely and irreversibly. That information can be used to determine when to take a patient off life support.
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