[Brain death committees of university hospitals in Japan].
We carried out a questionnaire survey on the brain death committees of university hospitals in Japan. Fewer than a half of university hospitals have independent brain death committees. However, a tendency was observed from this survey that the university hospitals established independent brain death committees from the pre-existing ethical committees. The role of anesthesiologists seems to become more important for decision of the brain death.
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Department of Anesthesiology, Niigata University School of Medicine.
Shimoji
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D000776:Anesthesiology; D001926:Brain Death; D017041:Ethics Committees; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires