Sentences with phrase «brain death»

How can society be sure that the medical profession is correct in their diagnosis of brain death?

Some contend that liberalism, beaten down and knocked out too many times, is suffering from brain death.

From the story: Guidelines for determining brain death differ....

I'm assuming baby brain death of some description was definitely on the cards.

At first, brain death advocates said this is a matter of hours.

Somehow I knew that I had to change my field of interest; otherwise I would die a sudden brain death.

If a patient escapes outright brain death, some improvement can be expected, especially among those who survive trauma rather than oxygen - deprivation injuries, such as a stroke or heart attack.

But the symptoms of severe brain damage are life altering, such as in the case of brain death, when only heart beat and blood pressure remain.

The real significance of pregnant brain - dead women is that they would seem to sound the death knell for brain death as a definition.

For their part, the hospital's medical experts insisted to the judge that the videos prove nothing — that Jahi's current physicality remains consistent with brain death and so the original findings should be binding.

In one remarkable case, the patient survived 20 years after brain death before succumbing to cardiac arrest.

Lack of Clarity and Integrity Concerning Brain Death It is clear that the Catholic Church not only desires that an acceptable definition of death be officially applied, but also wants there to be confidence that medical individuals involved in the removal of any organs should actually apply such a definition.

It is worth noting that as recently as 1988 the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs had concluded that it was not permissible to remove organs for transplantation from anencephalic infants while they were still alive, even though it is harder to maintain organs in suitable condition if one waits until the infant has sustained whole brain death.

She has shown that ketone bodies may help the brain recover from lack of oxygen induced brain death in newborns through adults.

Thamara Perera, FRCS, of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, in the UK, and his colleagues used microdialysis, a novel technique to study the differences in basic energy metabolism between organs from DCD and brain death donors.

But only 25 percent actually have the required donor identification papers that would allow a physician to take a needed organ in the event of a documented brain death, said Marita Völker - Albert, spokesperson for the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), a government agency that is promoting organ donation.

Jahi's brain was deprived of oxygen, and her doctors at the highly respected Children's Hospital Oakland declared brain death and pushed to have all life - sustaining medical treatment terminated.

Coimbra demonstrates that we might cause brain death by testing for it.

It's either fully on or fully off (aka brain death).

In the practice of critical care medicine, we sometimes end up caring for patients who have suffered severe illness or injury and are deteriorating toward brain death.

Current brain death, procurement, and transplantation practices, I believe, are sound.

Robert Veatch, professor emeritus of ethics at Georgetown University, wants to expand the criteria of brain death so that they include the loss of overt cognitive function.

She moved Jahi to New Jersey — which allows a religious exemption to brain death decrees — where she received further treatment and was eventually released to home care.

Shlomo Zuckier presents an interesting variety of Jewish perspectives on brain death at Jewish Ideas Daily.

The committee said all of the above tests had to be repeated at least 24 hours later with no change, but it added two caveats: hypothermia and drug intoxication can mimic brain death.

The logic of brain death goes like this: If the brain stem is dead, then the higher centers of the brain are also probably dead, and if the whole brain is dead, then everything beneath the brain stem is no longer relevant.

The Uniform Determination of Death Act states that the cessation of respiratory or heart functions, or of brain functioning inside the brain stem constitute brain death.

Among the highlights of the bonus features are exclusive, never - before - seen short films from Tales of Halloween directors, including Brain Death, an early student film from director Neil Marshall which was previously unreleased.

The situation is further complicated by veterinary hospitals that do not have the necessary equipment to detect brain death

Then, if she lacks even one criterion for brain death, Jahi's California death certificate should be revoked — let the chips fall where they may.

A brief definition before jumping in: Brain death occurs when a person's brain activity, including that of the brain stem (which controls the respiratory and cardiovascular....

McCabe says his outfit can get a donor from brain death to the operating room in 12 hours.

When we experience brain death, we cease to exist.

(para. 27) Pope John Paul II strikes a good balance in his «Discourse to the Working Group (concerning Brain Death)» in December 1985 when he says that the value of human life «springs from what is spiritual in man... (the body) receives from a spiritual principle - which inhabits it and makes it what it is - a supreme dignity.»

In Japan, for example, if a patient has expressed a written wish to be an organ donor then organs can be taken on medical diagnosis of brain death.

When Stone's father attempted to sit on it, the tree's rotten trunk gave way and collapsed on him, causing massive brain damage and, with tragic swiftness, brain death.

Large scale apoptosis begins to take place after cells are glucose and oxygen starved — about 6 minutes after the heart stops and brain death occurs.

Jahi McMath is a living, severely disabled young lady, who currently fulfills neither the standard diagnostic Guidelines for brain death nor California's statutory definition of death.

I have written several posts about the need to develop uniform standards of declaring death by neurological criteria — popularly known as «brain death.»

Shewmon, professor emeritus in pediatrics and neurology at UCLA, has testified that Jahi's condition does not currently meet the criteria for brain death.