An Overview of Ethical Issues Raised by Medicolegal Challenges to Death by Neurologic Criteria in the United Kingdom and a Comparison to Management of These Challenges in the USA

An Update on Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria since the World Brain Death Project

“…There continue to be legal conflicts related to BD/DNC. 243 While most of these cases revolve around the issues addressed in the WBDP, a few new questions emerged after a British judge declared BD/DNC in a patient who was not evaluated using the British BD/DNC guideline (the 2008 245 The United States had the most publications about BD/DNC, followed by Germany, Japan, France, and Spain. ►Fig.…”

“…There continue to be legal conflicts related to BD/DNC. 243 While most of these cases revolve around the issues addressed in the WBDP, a few new questions emerged after a British judge declared BD/DNC in a patient who was not evaluated using the British BD/DNC guideline (the 2008 Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' Code of Practice for the Diagnosis and Confirmation of Death). Some of these new questions include: (1) Who is responsible for deciding how death is declared?…”

Cardiac organoids do not warrant additional moral scrutiny

“…As expressed elsewhere: "Death is a biological reality, but the means to declare death and time of death are social constructs. " [34] Medical advances such as respiratory machines, artificial hearts, and new organ procurement techniques have made it possible to save lives, but have also further complicated declaring death.…”

Informed non-dissent for brain death testing in children: ethical and legal perspectives

“…In mid-2022, the high profile case of Archie Battersbee raised a number of ethical and legal questions about the medical care of children suspected to be brain dead, particularly in the setting of family disagreement 1 2. Ultimately in Archie’s case, formal brain death testing was not possible (because he did not meet the preconditions).…”