451.007 - Determination of death. - Nevada Statutes

451.007  Determination of death.

      1.  For legal and medical purposes, a person is dead if the person has sustained an irreversible cessation of:

      (a) Circulatory and respiratory functions; or

      (b) All functions of the person’s entire brain, including his or her brain stem.

      2.  A determination of death made under this section must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.

      3.  This section may be cited as the Uniform Determination of Death Act and must be applied and construed to carry out its general purpose which is to make uniform among the states which enact it the law regarding the determination of death.

      (Added to NRS by 1979, 226; A 1985, 130)