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02.05.2023 | Editorials

Answering global challenges to the determination of death: consensus-building leadership from Canada

verfasst von: Dale Gardiner, MBBS, MBioEth, David M. Greer, MD, MA, James L. Bernat, MD, Maureen O. Meade, MSc, MD, Helen Opdam, MBBS, FRACP, FCICM, Stephan K. W. Schwarz, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Erschienen in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Ausgabe 4/2023

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Twenty years ago, Eelco Wijdicks published a seminal inventory of brain death worldwide and drew attention to two seemingly contradictory positions: that brain death was an accepted fact, despite the absence of a global consensus in its diagnostic criteria.¹ A decade later, Sonny Dhanani and colleagues highlighted a similar lack of consensus about criteria for determining death after cardiac arrest.² Generally, societal consensus in health matters is predicated on medical consensus. But not so it seems with the determination of death. …

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Titel: Answering global challenges to the determination of death: consensus-building leadership from Canada
verfasst von: Dale Gardiner, MBBS, MBioEth
David M. Greer, MD, MA
James L. Bernat, MD
Maureen O. Meade, MSc, MD
Helen Opdam, MBBS, FRACP, FCICM
Stephan K. W. Schwarz, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Publikationsdatum: 02.05.2023
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie / Ausgabe 4/2023
Print ISSN: 0832-610X
Elektronische ISSN: 1496-8975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-023-02423-4

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