Authors

D Thomson, ¹ FCS (SA), MMed (Surg), Cert Crit Care; I Joubert, ² FCA (SA); K De Vasconcellos, ³ FCA (SA), MMedSc, Cert Crit Care; F Paruk, ⁴ PhD; S Mokogong, ⁵ MB ChB; R Mathivha, ⁶ FCPaed (SA), Cert Crit Care, DBS (BM); M McCulloch, ⁷ FCPaed (SA); B Morrow, ⁸ PhD, BSc (Physio), PG Dip (Health Research Ethics), PG Dip (Paed Palliative Med); D Baker, ⁹ MB ChB, FRCP (Lond); B Rossouw, ¹⁰ MMed (Paed), Cert Crit Care (Paed); N Mdladla, ¹¹ FCA (SA); G A Richards, ¹² PhD; N Welkovics, ¹³ FCS (SA), Cert Crit Care; B Levy, ¹⁴ MB ChB; I Coetzee, ¹⁵ BCur (IetA), MCur (Crit Care), PGCHE, PhD, Dip Crit Care; M Spruyt, ¹⁶ MMed (Chir) Crit Care; N Ahmed, ¹⁷ FCS (SA), MMed Surgery (SU), Cert Crit Care; D Gopalan, ¹⁸ MB ChB, FCA (SA), Crit Care

¹ Division of Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

² Division of Critical Care, Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

³ Department of Critical Care, King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban, South Africa; Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

⁴ Department of Critical Care, University of Pretoria, South Africa

⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pretoria, South Africa

⁶ Department of Critical Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

⁷ Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Transplant Unit, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

⁸ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

⁹ Department of Adult Critical Care, Livingstone Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

¹⁰ Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

¹¹ Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, Sefako Makgatho University, Johannesburg, South Africa

¹² Department of Critical Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

¹³ Netcare Unitas Hospital, Centurion, South Africa

¹⁴ Netcare Rosebank Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

¹⁵ Department of Nursing Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa

¹⁶ Busamed Bram Fischer International Airport Hospital, Bloemfontein, South Africa

¹⁷ Consolidated Critical Care Unit, Tygerberg Hospital, Department of Surgical Sciences, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town

¹⁸ Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Corresponding author: D Thomson (David.Thomson@uct.ac.za)

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Critical Care Society of Southern Africa: South African Guidelines on the Determination of Death_SAMJ/SAJCC_March 2021, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Part 2)