[The imperative legislation of brain death in view of the development of organ donation in China].

ABSTRACT

With the great improvement of the education quality of Chinese citizens and the development of the medical popular science, organ donation has been developing unprecedentedly in the past decade in China. Brain death has been widely accepted as a criteria of death in the medical field, but it has not been legislated in China. Chinese experts wrote the "The Implementation and Management Brain Death Judgment (2021)". The main contents involved several issues encountered by clinicians in the process of judging brain death.This paper reports the current situation and focuses on the necessity of the legislation of brain death in China, and analyses the feasibility based on the current situation of organ donation and the public's acceptance of legislation on brain death in China, providing help to accelerate the process of legislation of brain death.