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Canada has recently published a new Clinical Practice Guideline on the diagnosis and management of brain death. It states that consent is not necessary to carry out the interventions required to make the diagnosis. A supporting article not only sets out the arguments for this but also contends that ‘UK laws similarly carve out an exception, excusing clinicians from a prima facie duty to get consent’. This is supplemented by the claim that recent court decisions in the UK similarly confirm th...

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The updated guidelines provide a comprehensive list of recommendations for clinicians to follow when determining brain death in adults and children.

The brain death guideline update integrates standards for adults and children into a single guideline.

New guidelines on determining brain death released today offer the first updated recommendations in more than a decade for adult and pediatric patients.

The American College of Physicians revisited the Uniform Determination of Death Act and revised only the determination of cardiorespiratory death standard.

Their hearts and brains had flatlined. Yet as doctors tried to revive their "technically dead" patients, some of those patients were aware of what was going on. One...

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Ever since President Vladimir Putin gave the order for Russian troops to invade Ukraine, the international response has understandably focused on how best to end the land war. That has meant sending conventional military hardware – tanks, missile systems, artillery – and training Ukrainian soldiers.