Should We Change the Definition of Death? Watch the Video...
Today's, New England Journal of Medicine published a report of successful pediatric heart transplantation from donors who suffered cardiac death. Part of their paper argues that using circulatory system failures as a definition of death would open up a significantly larger portion of cadavers available to donate organs.
To hear the ethics debate about this paper and the arguments surrounding cardiac death as a definition for death, check out NEJM's Perspective Roundtable on video.
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