° Clinical diagnosis made by hospital staff.
° The practice for declaring brain death varies from hospital to hospital.
° Legal and ethical definition of death:
° Only an individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.
° This definition is the state regulation for declaring death.
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