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Dec 2020

What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed?

Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD and James L. Bernat, MD
Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1038-1046. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038.

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