009 - Ethics: Life Support after Brain Death

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Topics in Palliative Medicine

26 episodes

2 months ago

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009 - Ethics: Life Support after Brain Death

Topics in Palliative Medicine

21 minutes

10 months ago

009 - Ethics: Life Support after Brain Death

Questions? Comments? Send us a message!This article presents an ethics case study concerning a 52-year-old male declared brain dead, whose family refuses to remove life support. Multiple perspectives—medical, nursing, chaplain, social work, legal, and ethical—are offered, exploring the conflict between the family's emotional denial of death and the medical team's obligation to uphold accepted medical standards. The case highlights the complexities of defining death in the modern era, the imp...