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H B Wuermeling

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PubMed1994

Brain-death and pregnancy.

This paper examines the case of a pregnant woman killed by a traffic accident (brain-death), but under intensive care and discusses legal and ethical aspects. Ceasing intensive care was, legally, neither necessary nor forbidden. Ethically, the right to life in a defensive meaning is unlimited, however, in the sense of a right to participate, it is dependent of the circumstances, which include economy as well as the chances of the child.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1994

Brain-death as an anthropological or as a biological concept.

In 1968, when the Harvard Committee defined brain-death to characterize irreversible coma, the question of when a doctor might stop resuscitation remained unresolved: brain-death is a safe, but not a sufficient criterion. Furthermore, the committee defined brain-death to be the death of man without any more than pragmatic reasons. Philosophers tried to give anthropological reasons, as important human functions are located in the brain. But this is misleading, for instance to concepts of partial brain-death. Biologically, however, the death of the whole brain disintegrates the organism and can therefore be accepted as the criterion for death of man.

Anthropology↗
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[A new examination program for forensic assessment: performance of computers in medicine].

Computerizing of medicine is expected to increase very rapidly in the next few years. This will bear new questions for forensic judgement. We report a case and our expert opinion concerning the use of a very simple computer program at a private hospital to obtain comments on laboratory findings. Furthermore we discuss questions we consider to be of importance for forensic judgement in this field.

Clinical Laboratory Information Systems↗