Analysis of the reasons for nurses’ confusion in relation to the concept of brain death from clinical and legal points of view

Background: Nurses in intensive care units (ICU) play a key role in taking care of brain dead patients and they are often in contact with such patients given the high rate of brain deaths. Consequently, they are in a challenging and stressful condition, which may be aggravated due to the need for...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hamideh Yazdi Moghaddam, Alireza Pouresmaeili, Zahra Sadat Manzari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Electronic Physician 2018-05-01
Series:Electronic Physician
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6033127/