Ep. 120: Dead Enough is Good Enough: Update on Brain Death and NRP
Bioethics on Air
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Revisions to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) and Brain Death Guidelines
This chapter of the podcast provides an update on the revisions to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) and the challenges concerning the practice of Normal Thermic Regional Perfusion. The speaker discusses their optimism that a proposed partial brain death standard would not be pushed through due to opposition from the American College of Physicians and the lack of medical consensus. Ultimately, the drafting committee decided to pause the revision of the UDDA and the original standard from 1980-1981 will remain in place.
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