Critical synopsis and key questions in brain death determination

Wijdicks, Eelco F. M.

doi:10.1007/s00134-019-05549-6

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“…Folder reviews and audits of documentation completed at end of life to assess compliance with these guidelines will assist in improving standards in death determination and end-of-life care. [70]…”

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South African Guidelines on the Determination of Death

Thomson

Joubert

Vasconsellos

et al. 2021

South Afr J Crit Care

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Death is a medical occurrence that has social, legal, religious and cultural consequences requiring common clinical standards for its diagnosis and legal regulation. [1] There is no documented case of a person who fulfils the preconditions and criteria for brain death ever subsequently developing any return of brain function. [2,3] Clear medical standards for death certification augment the quality and rigor of death determination. [4][5][6] Currently there are no clinical guidelines on death determination in South Africa (SA), with clinicians using available international guidelines, which vary markedly and are not always applicable to the SA context. [7][8][9][10] The World Federation This open-access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.

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Section: Applicability Barriers Facilitators and Cost Implications mentioning

confidence: 99%

South African Guidelines on the Determination of Death

Thomson

Joubert

Vasconsellos

et al. 2021

South Afr J Crit Care

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“…These views were probably influenced by international documents that advocate this. [5] In SA, any two doctors can perform the tests, as long as both are fully registered for independent practice and at least one has 5 or more years’ experience as a registered practitioner, and provided neither is part of the transplant team.…”

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confidence: 99%