RT Article
T1 Assessment of Somatic Support Process for Pregnant Brain Death Patients Occurring in a Transition Country Between Asia and Europe from Medical, Ethical, Legal and Religious Aspects
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 59
IS 6
SP 2935
OP 2950
A1 Boran, Ömer Faruk
A1 Bakacak, Murat
A1 Soylu, Dilek
A1 Yazar, Fatih Mehmet
A1 Yazar, Nurullah
A1 Öksüz, Hafize
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1740218809
AB In spite of the fact that brain death during pregnancy is not a common occurrence, it is an important ethical problem for all cultures and religions can have a significant influence on the donation decision after brain death. Therefore, this study aimed to present the case of a pregnant patient developing brain death which occurred in our intensive care unit and to compare the medical, ethical and legal problems relating to pregnant cases developing brain death with 24 cases in the literature. A 21-year-old 19-week pregnant case with gestational diabetes was monitored in the anesthesia intensive care unit and developed brain death due to intracranial mass and intraventricular hemorrhage. Though brain death is a situation well understood by organ transplant professionals, brain death developing in pregnant patients still involves many medical, ethical and legal problems.
K1 Brain death in pregnancy
K1 Donation decision
K1 Muslim families
DO 10.1007/s10943-019-00952-1