BMJ 2008;336:581 (15 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39518.354259.DB
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Doctors hope consensus on brain death in China will boost transplants
Jane Parry
1 Hong Kong
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Doctors, ethicists, and lawyers are to agree a definition for brain death for use by China’s medical community, which many doctors hope will boost organ transplants.
More than 200 delegates from the disciplines of neurosurgery, organ donation, and transplantation from China and elsewhere are expected to attend a conference at the end of April in Beijing hosted by the Organ Transplant Committee to develop a consensus on brain death. The conference is being administered by China’s Ministry of Health and chaired by Jiefu Huang, the vice minister for health.
"The conference will try to work out a definition of brain death that can be universally accepted in medical circles and help promote the spread of the concept and healthy human organ transplants in China," Mr Huang, whose background is in liver transplant surgery, was quoted as saying by China’s official news agency Xinhua.
By agreeing criteria for brain death China
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