Notifying a death in medicine

The objective of the doctors is to maintain the state of health, with the purpose of prolonging the life and the quality of life of the individual, the family and the community. This objective is achieved by undertaking actions aimed at effectively contributing to the education of the patient and their physical, family and social environment. Developing measures focused on prevention, restitution of health and efficiency of health services, through the use of scientific advances However, a natural aspect in the cycle of life is the conclusion of this. Where there is the organic impossibility of maintaining the homeostatic process reaching the state defined as biological death. Such an entity is approached differently according to the cultural, ideological or religious context of the relatives. However for the doctor, this fact according to their degree of maturity, translates into a psychological and emotionally complex situation. Since it must communicate this event to people in charge of the already deceased and few are doctors, who are with the skills to communicate it properly. In order to facilitate this task, we describe a practical and dynamic fourstep protocol, described by Dr. José Félix Saavedra Ramírez, using the Baile and Buckman model as a reference to communicate bad news.4–8