Abstract
The diagnosis of brain death is considered in Occidental World as a new way of being dead. Nevertheless, in our country, this concept has not been completely accepted by the general population neither by health workers. In our experience, a significant percentage of the professionals working in pediatric services believe that a child in brain death is not dead. Considering this situation it seems very important that pediatric services should receive special training about the meaning of this condition. Those professionals that do not accept brain death, as the death of the individual should be allowed to stay away from any decision concerning that child. The Chilean Legislation is reviewed and an ethical analysis is also done.Los contenidos publicados en esta revista están protegidos bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0). Esto significa que cualquier persona es libre de compartir, usar y construir a partir de este artículo, incluso con fines comerciales, siempre que se otorgue el crédito apropiado al autor original, se proporcione un enlace a la licencia, se indique el nombre y edición de la Revista.
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