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Pediatric brain death confusing / Survey: Some parents don't know how long kids' hearts go on beating
Japanese hospitals have handled at least 29 brain-dead children under the age of 15 in the year since the enforcement last July of the revised Organ Transplant Law, which permits organ donations from brain-dead children in that age bracket, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey.....
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110719005211.htm
14 children pronounced brain dead in past year did not donate organs despite legal changes
Headlines were made across Japan in April when a child pronounced brain dead became the first and so far only child to donate organs under legal changes implemented in July 2010. A Mainichi survey has discovered, however, that at least 14 other children have been pronounced brain dead over the past year but did not donate any organs.....
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/07/18/20110718p2a00m0na006000c.html
Japanese hospitals have handled at least 29 brain-dead children under the age of 15 in the year since the enforcement last July of the revised Organ Transplant Law, which permits organ donations from brain-dead children in that age bracket, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey.....
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110719005211.htm
14 children pronounced brain dead in past year did not donate organs despite legal changes
Headlines were made across Japan in April when a child pronounced brain dead became the first and so far only child to donate organs under legal changes implemented in July 2010. A Mainichi survey has discovered, however, that at least 14 other children have been pronounced brain dead over the past year but did not donate any organs.....
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/07/18/20110718p2a00m0na006000c.html