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During the last several decades physicians and the community have needed urgent changes in the legal codes for accepting brain death (BD) as death, to obtain organs from heart-beating donors. The “dead donor rule” requires that donors must be first declared dead.1 For this reason, most codes legalizing BD are usually sections of transplant laws.2 Thus, a conceptual and practical controversy emerged: if brain-dead cases were not useful as organ donors, they were usually kept on life support until cardiac arrest occurred.2–4
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Machado, C. et al. (2004). Cuba has Passed a Law for the Determination and Certification of Death. In: Machado, C., Shewmon, D.A. (eds) Brain Death and Disorders of Consciousness. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 550. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48526-8_11
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