Practicing Medical Procedures on the Newly Dead - U.S ...

Nov 19, 2003 · In today’s presentation we consider whether it is ethically permissible for practitioners or trainee’s to practice medical procedures, such as intubation, on recently deceased patients, or as they are referred to in the literature, the newly dead, and if so, whether it is ethically necessary to obtain consent from the next of kin or prospectively, from the decedent ................
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