Section 2. Definition of Terms. –
As used in this Act the following terms shall mean:
"Organ Bank Storage Facility" - a facility licensed, accredited or approved under the law for storage of human bodies or parts thereof.
"Decedent" - a deceased individual, and includes a still-born infant or fetus.
"Testator" - an individual who makes a legacy of all or part of his body.
"Donor" - an individual authorized under this Act to donate all or part of the body of a decedent.
"Hospital" - a hospital licensed, accredited or approval under the law, and includes, a hospital operated by the Government.
"Part" - includes transplantable organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids and other portions of the human body.
"Person" - an individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, association, the Government or any of its subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities, including government-owned or -controlled corporations; or any other legal entity.
"Physician" or "Surgeon" - a physician or surgeon licensed or authorized to practice medicine under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines.
"Immediate Family" of the decedent - the persons enumerated in Section 4(a) of this Act.
"Death" - the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem. A person shall be medically and legally dead if either:
In the opinion of the attending physician, based on the acceptable standards of medical practice, there is an absence of natural respiratory and cardiac functions and, attempts at resuscitation would not be successful in restoring those functions. In this case, death shall be deemed to have occurred at the time these functions ceased; or
In the opinion of the consulting physician, concurred in by the attending physician, that on the basis of acceptable standards of medical practice, there is an irreversible cessation of all brain functions; and considering the absence of such functions, further attempts at resuscitation or continued supportive maintenance would not be successful in resorting such natural functions. In this case, death shall be deemed to have occurred at the time when these conditions first appeared.
The death of the person shall be determined in accordance with the acceptable standards of medical practice and shall be diagnosed separately by the attending physician and another consulting physician, both of whom must be appropriately qualified and suitably experienced in the care of such parties. The death shall be recorded in the patient's medical record.