Sentences with phrase «brain dead patients»

Withholding food and water from a brain dead patient is one thing.

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Here's a news item that has interesting theological implications: Medical review boards in both the U.S. and India have granted permission to two biotech companies to experiment with new technology that they hope could bring back patients who are brain dead — something currently considered impossible.

If Jahi is not — or, perhaps better, no longer — brain dead, this may be an unprecedented event, as there are no known cases of a properly diagnosed brain - dead patient experiencing restored neurological function.

However, if no such consent is given then a «brain dead» patient is considered still to be alive!

They buried their dead, most likely with grave goods, and cared for their living: A child born with hydrocephalus, sometimes called water on the brain, lived with profound disability until the age of 3 or so, a feat only possible with patient, loving care.

Dr. Gregory Liptak, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, wrote: «Patients who are brain dead often have unusual spontaneous movements when they are disconnected from their ventilators....

Goose bumps, shivering, extensor movements of the arms, rapid flexion of the elbows, elevation of the arms above the bed, crossing of the hands, reaching of the hands toward the neck, forced exhalation, and thoracic respiratory - like movements... These complex sequential movements are felt to be release phenomena from the spinal cord including the upper cervical cord and do not [emphasis author's] mean that the patient is no longer brain dead.»

Yet Shewmon presents a litany of life processes that brain - dead patients continue to exhibit:

Shewmon compiled 150 documented cases of brain - dead patients whose hearts continued to beat, and whose bodies did not disintegrate, past one week's time.

The Harvard criteria state that the brain - dead patient must exhibit no movement.

Once a patient goes brain dead, and relatives sign his organ donation consent form, he will get the best medical care of his life.

He is chairman of the department of anesthesiology at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, and he points out that an anesthesiologist creates brain - dead patients every day: «We give drugs to make them die.

In another case, a 30 - year - old patient with severe head trauma was declared brain dead by two doctors.

From that experience, Deisseroth determined that he would spend his life solving a core puzzle of psychiatric disease: A brain could appear undamaged, with no dead tissue or anatomical deformities, yet something could be so wrong it destroyed patients» lives.

NEW YORK — In 30 years as an oncologist, Dr. Howard Fine estimates he has treated some 20,000 patients with glioblastomas, the most deadly form of brain cancer, «and almost all of them are dead.»

Ananthaswamy recounts, for instance, the story of a patient who exhibited the hallmark symptom of Cotard's syndrome: he insisted he was brain - dead despite being alert enough to make that declaration.

The procedure, which involved attaching the nose, chin, cheeks, and lips of a 46 - year - old brain - dead woman, set off a firestorm of criticism that lingered even after the French surgeons declared in July 2006, in the medical journal The Lancet, that the graft was «successful with respect to appearance, sensitivity, and acceptance by the patient.»

The combo is then injected into people who have been declared brain dead — M. D. Anderson patients who often wished to be organ donors but weren't eligible, so their families agreed to this study instead — to see which blood vessels the peptide hooks up to.

Nobody knows what, if anything, brain - dead patients experience, and none of them could plausibly return to consciousness to tell us.

A U.S. biotech company will attempt to resurrect 20 brain - dead patients by a combination of novel therapies involving brain stem cells.

There was a patient who was claiming to be brain dead.

Colina's quest to restore her boyfriend Luke's spirit into a new body leads her to an insane asylum, where a brain - dead and wheelchair - bound patient named Dean becomes her target.