Abstract
Brain death and organ transplantation are concepts that may create doubts among the scientific community and involves personal and medical difficulties to solve and complex situations to deal with. The lack of a definition much of the terms around these concepts complicates the consecution of a consensus in decision making and provoque a constant evolution in determination of their limits through time and places. This article makes a little summary of the concepts related to organ trasplantation and donation, to review brain death diagnostic criteria and to expose some potential ethical conflicts that may appear in these medical situations. For the preparation of this review article it has been done a research within platforms UptoDate and PubMed of the papers and sistematic reviews published during the last twenty years in English and Spanish with the key words: brain death, trasplantation, donation and ethics.
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