J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 91(9): 1389-1392, 1990

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Report on the annual meeting

PROBLEMS LYING BETWEEN BRAIN DEATH AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION

Somatic death can be defined as irreversible cessation of the functions of brain, although it has been proposed as the irreversible cessation of the functions of either heart, lungs or brain. In other words, the identification of brain death means that the patient is dead.
If all preconditions of the criteria of brain death are fulfilled and thereafter the criteria have still been maintained for a period of some hours, the time of brain death should not be decided at the endpoint of the period observed, but should be determined at the beginning of all factors of the criteria fulfilled.
The organ transplantation will henceforth acquire established citizenship in Japan, and will develop as one of medical cares beyond medical and social difficulties.

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