Castro AMS, Villagómez OAJ, Torrez PJ, Hernández HC, Hernández SS

Language: Spanish
References: 25
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ABSTRACT

Classically, death was defined as the irreversible cessation of cardiac and respiratory functions. But with the development of mechanical ventilation and intensive care units, it can be possible to maintain cardiocirculatory and lung artificial support, so the concept of death has changed substantially; at present, the death concept is based on neurological criteria that define a person’s death as an irreversible end of brain function. In 1959, the concept of brain death was described by Mollaret and Goulon as comma dépassé (which does not come back). Since the definition of brain death is under discussion, person’s death or brain’s death are the same; they have been recognized as the person’s death by the scientific community and accepted in the laws of different countries.

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