This article is part of a series on Ethical Considerations: Organ transplantation and the definition of death in medical practice, edited by Thomas S Huddle MD, PhD.  CommentaryThe ethics of donation and transplantation: are definitions of death being distorted for organ transplantation?Ari R Joffe Stollery Children's Hospital, 3A3.07 8440 112 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2B7
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2007, 2:28doi:10.1186/1747-5341-2-28
Additional filesAdditional file 1: Case series documenting lack of auto-resuscitation. The table provides details of the studies quoted by several groups to justify the claim that auto-resuscitation does not occur after more than 2 minutes after withdrawal of life support. The limitations of these studies are described in the table. Format: DOC Size: 30KB Download file This file can be viewed with: Microsoft Word Viewer |
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