从我国器官捐献发展的现状看脑死亡立法势在必行

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

随着我国公民素质的大幅度提高和医学科普的日趋精进,近10年来我国器官捐献工作得到迅速发展。作为死亡的判定标准,脑死亡尽管已在医学界获得普遍认可,但尚未进行立法确认。中国专家撰写了《脑死亡判定实施与管理:专家指导意见(2021)》。其主要内容涉及临床医师在脑死亡判定过程中遇到的一些问题。本文着重探讨了我国脑死亡立法的现状及其必要性,并基于我国器官捐献现状及公众对脑死亡立法接受程度的分析,旨在助力加快脑死亡相关立法的进程。

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.