Brain Death and Organ Donation

Brain Death: Health Team’s Experience With Parents of Children and Adolescents

“…In the context of care for children and adolescents, this feeling is aggravated, because both society and health workers still bring the thought that parents should die before their children and not the other way around and that a child has "their whole life ahead of them". This death situation impacts professionals more intensely, since they feel part of that moment, involved in the care and maintenance of patients until the end of BDDP, also confronting their individual and personal beliefs about death 7,[11][12][13][14] .…”

“…Parents, impacted by the information of the beginning of BDDP followed by communication of death, look at their children and feel like they are asleep, while the team is faced with the reality and the need to maintain this body, even if artificially, as determined by legislation 2-3,7, . [9][10] Considering such particularities, the death resulting from a BDDP may involve confrontation of the cultural conception of life cycle, since we have as a cycle to be born to grow, to become an adult, to grow old and then to die 7,[11][12][13][14] . However, there is a need to deconstruct this paradigm as it generates an outdated operating mode that affects professionals working with critically ill patient units, especially those who participate in BDDP.…”

“…However, there is a need to deconstruct this paradigm as it generates an outdated operating mode that affects professionals working with critically ill patient units, especially those who participate in BDDP. These conceptions make the moment even more stressful and surrounded by denial from both the parents and the team itself 7,[11][12][13][14] .…”

Morte Encefálica: Vivência Da Equipe De Saúde Junto Aos Pais De Crianças E Adolescentes

“…Considerando tais particularidades, a morte decorrente de um PDME pode envolver confrontação da concepção cultural de ciclo de vida: uma vez que temos como ciclo o nascer para crescer, tornarse adulto, envelhecer e depois morrer 7,[11][12][13][14] . Todavia, há a necessidade da desconstrução deste paradigma por gerar um modo operante ultrapassado que atinge os profissionais que atuam nas unidades de pacientes críticos, em especial, àqueles que participam do PDME.…”

“…Todavia, há a necessidade da desconstrução deste paradigma por gerar um modo operante ultrapassado que atinge os profissionais que atuam nas unidades de pacientes críticos, em especial, àqueles que participam do PDME. Em razão de que essas concepções tornam o momento ainda mais estressante e envolto por negação tanto dos pais como da própria equipe 7,[11][12][13][14] .…”