title: Where have we been? Where are we going? Initiatives to improve uniformity of policies, integrity of practice, and improve understanding of brain death within the global medical community and lay public.
authors.affiliation: Division of Critical Care and Extracorporeal Life Support Program, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada; Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Canada; Loeb Chair in Organ and Tissue Donation, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Electronic address: sam.shemie@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Sam D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Shemie
authors.affiliation: Department of Critical Care, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baker
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001926:Brain Death / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005544:Forecasting; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000941:ethics; D028723:Personhood; D012151:Resuscitation; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards*