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Cuba has Passed a Law for the Determination and Certification of Death

2004; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-0-306-48526-8_11

2214-8019

Calixto Machado, Mayda Abeledo, Carlos Lasarte Álvarez, Rosa M. Aroche, Irene Barrios, Alicia M. Lasanta, Ramón Beguería, Armando Daniel Saldaña Cabrera, Berta L. Castro, Maria E. Cobas, Enma Cuspineda, Antonio Enamorado, Nicolás Fernández, Pedro Figueredo, Orlando David García, Tania María García García, Nelson Gómez, Carlos Javier Moreiro González, Noel González, Jorge González, Armando E. González, Raúl Herrera, Jorge González Lage, Alberto A. Martinez, A. Gonzalez-meneses pardo, Jesús Parets, Leonardo Pérez, Jesús Pérez, M. L. de Pablo Pons, Desiderio Pozo, Ibis Rojas, J Moreno Román, Héctor Roselló, Rene Fontecha Ruiz, A. M. Santiago, Sofía Sordo, Roberto A. Gomez Suarez, Rene L. Zamora,

Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes

During the last several decades physicians and the community have needed urgent changes in the legal codes for accepting brain death (BD) as death, to obtain organs from heart-beating donors. The "dead donor rule" requires that donors must be first declared dead.1 For this reason, most codes legalizing BD are usually sections of transplant laws.2 Thus, a conceptual and practical controversy emerged: if brain-dead cases were not useful as organ donors, they were usually kept on life support until cardiac arrest occurred.2–4