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.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 90 - Medicine and Allied Occupations
Article 23 - Right to Natural Death; Brain Death.
§ 90-320 - General purpose of Article.
§ 90-321 - Right to a natural death.
§ 90-321.1 - Advanced directive for a natural death executed during a state of emergency.
§ 90-322 - Procedures for natural death in the absence of a declaration.