Lewis Ariane, Greer David
Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, 530 First Avenue, HCC-5A, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street C3, Suite 338, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
J Bioeth Inq. 2018 Sep;15(3):417-428. doi: 10.1007/s11673-018-9863-8. Epub 2018 Jul 6.
Recently, there have been a number of lawsuits in the United States in which families objected to performance of apnoea testing for determination of brain death. The courts reached conflicting determinations in these cases. We discuss the medicolegal complications associated with apnoea testing that are highlighted by these cases and our position that the decision to perform apnoea testing should be made by clinicians, not families, judges, or juries.
最近，美国发生了多起诉讼案件，一些家庭反对通过进行呼吸暂停测试来判定脑死亡。在这些案件中，法院做出了相互矛盾的裁决。我们讨论了这些案件所凸显的与呼吸暂停测试相关的法医学并发症，以及我们的立场，即是否进行呼吸暂停测试的决定应由临床医生做出，而非家属、法官或陪审团。
