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  • * It reviews notable legal cases in the UK regarding DNC, particularly the case of Archie Battersbee, who was initially deemed dead by neurologic criteria but later found to be in a vegetative state.
  • * Finally, it discusses the ethical dilemmas that arise from medicolegal challenges to DNC in the UK, comparing how these issues are managed differently in the USA.

Article Abstract

Although medicolegal challenges to the use of neurologic criteria to declare death in the USA have been well-described, the management of court cases in the United Kingdom about objections to the use of neurologic criteria to declare death has not been explored in the bioethics or medical literature. This article (1) reviews conceptual, medical and legal differences between death by neurologic criteria (DNC) in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world to contextualize medicolegal challenges to DNC; (2) summarizes highly publicized legal cases related to DNC in the United Kingdom, including the nuanced 2022 case of Archie Battersbee, who was transiently considered dead by neurologic criteria, but ultimately determined to be in a vegetative state/unresponsive-wakeful state; and (3) provides an overview of ethical issues raised by medicolegal challenges to DNC in the United Kingdom and a comparison to the management of these challenges in the USA.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2022.2160516DOI Listing

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