Brain Death Testing – Consent or No Consent?

I have a guest editorial in the June 2020 American Journal of Bioethics. Fifteen articles discuss whether clinicians should get consent for brain death testing. 
Brain Death Testing: Time for National UniformityThaddeus Mason Pope
Legal and Ethical Considerations for Requiring Consent for Apnea Testing in Brain Death DeterminationIvor Berkowitz & Jeremy R. Garrett
Beyond the Apnea Test: An Argument to Broaden the Requirement for Consent to the Entire Brain Death EvaluationErin Paquette, Joel Frader, Seema Shah, Robert C. Tasker & Robert Truog
The Case Against Solicitation of Consent for Apnea TestingDhristie Bhagat & Ariane Lewis
Apnea Testing is Medical Treatment Requiring Informed ConsentGreg Yanke, Mohamed Y. Rady, Joseph Verheijde & Joan McGregor
Informed Consent Should Not Be Required for Apnea Testing and Arguing It Should Misses the PointArmand H. Matheny Antommaria, William Sveen & Erika L. Stalets
Requiring Consent for Brain-Death Testing: A Perilous ProposalJoseph Bertino & Jordan Potter
Shared Decision-Making in the Determination of Death by Neurologic CriteriaAlexander A. Kon
Restoring Trust and Requiring Consent in Death by Neurological CriteriaL. Syd M Johnson
Can’t Hit Pause? On the Constitutive Elements of Responsible Ventilator Management & the Apnea TestKevin M. Dirksen & Lilith Judd
Determining Death and the Scope of Medical ObligationsD. Micah Hester
Schrödinger’s Cat and the Ethically Untenable Act of ...

Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 22, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs