Legal and Ethical Challenges in Brain Death

• Autores: Michael A. Grodin
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 311, Nº. 24, 2014, págs. 2544-2544
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Mr Gostin in his Viewpoint1 argued that “All states have followed the model act, although 2 states—New Jersey and New York—require hospitals to consider the family’s religious or moral views in determining a course of action after brain death.” However, the New Jersey statute and New York regulation require consideration of the individual’s belief, not the family’s. Furthermore, these states require determining death not by neurological criteria (and thus not after brain death) but solely upon the basis of cardiorespiratory criteria