%0 Journal Article
%T Informed consent for the diagnosis of brain death: a conceptual argument
%A Osamu Muramoto
%J Archive of "Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s13010-016-0042-4
%X This essay provides an ethical and conceptual argument for the use of informed consent prior to the diagnosis of brain death. It is meant to enable the family to make critical end-of-life decisions, particularly withdrawal of life support system and organ donation, before brain death is diagnosed, as opposed to the current practice of making such decisions after the diagnosis of death. The recent tragic case of a 13-year-old brain-dead patient in California who was maintained on a ventilator for over 2 years illustrates how such a consent would have made a crucial difference
%K Informed consent
%K Brain death
%K Death determination
%K Jahi McMath
%K End-of-life decisions
%K Organ donation
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062821/