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2019 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 90 - Medicine and Allied Occupations
Article 23 - Right to Natural Death; Brain Death.
§ 90-323 - Death; determination by physician.
Universal Citation: NC Gen Stat § 90-323 (2019)
90-323. Death; determination by physician.
The determination that a person is dead shall be made by a physician licensed to practice medicine applying ordinary and accepted standards of medical practice. Brain death, defined as irreversible cessation of total brain function, may be used as a sole basis for the determination that a person has died, particularly when brain death occurs in the presence of artificially maintained respiratory and circulatory functions. This specific recognition of brain death as a criterion of death of the person shall not preclude the use of other medically recognized criteria for determining whether and when a person has died.
(1979, c. 715, s. 3.)
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