传统认为,心跳呼吸停止是死亡的标志。1968年美国哈佛大学医学院提出以脑死亡作为死亡的标志,这对于指导临床治疗和器官移植有十分重要的意义,引起医学、法学和伦理学界的普遍重视。目前脑死亡这一新观点已基本得到公认,但有关判断标准未尽一致。 Traditionally, stopping heartbeat and breathing is a sign of death. 1968 Harvard Medical School proposed the death of the brain as a sign of death, which guide the clinical treatment and organ transplantation has a very important meaning, aroused universal attention in medicine, law and ethics. At present, the new idea of ​​brain death has basically been recognized, but the standards of judgment are not the same.