Sentences with phrase «brain death in»

According to the Harvard criteria, loss of higher brain functions alone did not constitute death, and the laws of our states that have established criteria for determining brain death have had whole brain death in view.

Not exact matches

Of the 399 eligible claims, 124 were deaths and 17 were victims with physical injuries that resulted in quadriplegia, paraplegia, double amputation, permanent brain damage, or pervasive burns.

For one, it would give them three specific biological markers to hone in on: The buildup of beta amyloid and tau proteins, which cause brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's, and brain nerve cell death.

He's spent the summer grieving over the death of his son Beau, who succumbed to brain cancer in May.

All 50 states in the US recognize that someone is legally dead once they are brain dead, meaning they have «sustained irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem,» according to the Uniform Declaration of Death Act (UDDA).

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.

Massive damage to a brain results in death.

I believe death is an ending, after your brain stops working you cease to be except in others memories.

This gets crazier and crazier and Christians still ~ * believe * ~ in eternal life after death, zombie messiahs, moral shades of gray bundled in with loose and literal biblical interpretations... how do Christian's «brains» still function?

However, I do not believe that it could not possibly survive the death of the body because it is embodied in the unique patterns of electrical and chemical signals in the brain.

In terms of possible physiological triggers, life - endangering events such as falling and a sudden drop of oxygen to the brain are thought to be potential causes - something which would correlate with a previous study which found that 1 in 5 people who'd suffered a heart attack and were resuscitated had reported a near - death experiencIn terms of possible physiological triggers, life - endangering events such as falling and a sudden drop of oxygen to the brain are thought to be potential causes - something which would correlate with a previous study which found that 1 in 5 people who'd suffered a heart attack and were resuscitated had reported a near - death experiencin 5 people who'd suffered a heart attack and were resuscitated had reported a near - death experience.

@Vivienne: that near - death experience is probably caused by a massive release of chemicals in the brain to offset whatever trauma you've just suffered.

Asphyxiation results from lack of exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide due to respiratory failure or disturbance, resulting in insufficient brain oxygen, which leads to unconsciousness and 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.

Bleeding to death, with the resultant drop in blood pressure and hence blood supply to the brain, after bullets fired from guns have ripped through arteries, veins, viscera, bone and muscle kill people.

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

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.

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 definiDeath 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 definideath 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.

He is convinced that «brain death» is an invention of those promoting organ transplantation, stating in a letter to the BMJ that their:» explicit recognition that «brain death is a recent invention for transplant purposes is most welcome and should do much to expose the fallacies and fudgings associated with this supposednew form of death, which have been hidden from public and professional view for far too long.»

People having near death experiences has been going on for a while and hasn't stumped scientists as much as it's accepted that people hallucinate when the brain is randomly firing off synapses in it's death throes,.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

While I'm more of an atheist than anything else and respect Mr. Hawking's vast knowledge of the sciences and believe he's probably correct in his assertions I also believe that NO ONE really knows what's in store for us after death... most likely nothing at all since that's what makes sense to me, but all the brains in our world put together don't really know for sure.

While I no longer believe the earth is just 6,000 years old, I still live in the tension of unanswered questions about the universe, and death, and brains, and Neanderthals, and whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson's got to say on public television about the earth getting burned up by the sun or our species going extinct after an asteroid hits.

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.

It was, after all, in the immediate aftermath of the first successful human heart transplant that the medical profession recognized the need to establish criteria to pronounce «brain death,» to be used in certain cases in place of traditional «cardiorespiratory» criteria for death.

Many Christians in good conscience affirm this practice once a person's death has been established by traditional circulatory or whole - brain criteria.

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.

In 1968 an ad hoc committee at Harvard recommended a neurological criterion» cessation of brain activity» for determining death.

At that time the technology of transplant surgery was beginning to make progress, and some people suspected that the desire to establish in law a concept of brain death was motivated only by the wish to obtain organs for transplant before those organs had deteriorated (as they will rapidly when heart and lung activity fail).

This view comes very near to my own conception; however, it differs, because Schlick also writes (p. 293): «Consciousness can not be the essence of the brain particles for they are present even when consciousness is absent, as in death or sleep.»

Moreover, the respected neurologist Dr. Alan Shewmon, professor emeritus in pediatrics and neurology at UCLA, has testified that Jahi's condition does not currently satisfy the criteria for brain death.

Warren will preach his first sermon following his son's death on just the subject, saying «It's amazing to me that any other organ in your body can break down and there's no shame and stigma to it, but if your brain breaks down, you're supposed to keep it a secret»...

In the summer of 2009, as Kennedy was suffering from brain cancer and confronting the prospect of imminent death, he wrote a private letter to then - pontiff Benedict XVI.

It's like they've never bothered to challenge their brains over the idea of «death to self» that is taught time and again in both scripture as well as other Christian traditions such as the catechism.

More popular with both physicians and ethicists is the policy of «required request,» mandating that hospitals ask families about organ donation in every case of brain death.

He died, and in his book he emphasizes that there is absolutely no medical explanation for his near death experience because his brain neo-cortex was destroyed by bacterial meningitis.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

(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.»

Perhaps, as Gould suggests, nothing that our large brain has allowed us to learn has proved more frightening and weighty in importance than awareness of death.

All zero calorie sweeteners are harmful because they produce the same reaction in the brain by overstimulating nuerons to death.

Cheerleading is one of the highest risk sporting events for direct catastrophic injuries that can result in permanent brain injury, paralysis or death, with cheerleading accounting for an astounding 66 percent of all catastrophic injuries in high school female athletes over the past 25 years.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).

In extremely rare instances, a player who continues to play with concussion symptoms can suffer catastrophic injury or death from second impact syndrome, a form of swelling of the brain.

The National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research suggests the following four measures to reduce or prevent serious injury (concussion, traumatic brain injury, spinal paralysis) or death in football:

If an athlete is allowed to continue playing after concussion, however, their recovery is likely to take longer, and they may be at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and, in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.

«VBACs carry a less - than -1-percent increased risk of a uterine rupture, which could cause brain damage in the baby or even death, according to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists.»

newborn anemia, respiratory distress leading to brain damage and / or death (rare, yes, but it happens), inadequate blood supply resulting in a need for transfusion, possible heart defects resulting from problems closing off the hole in the heart valves following birth.

The Board recognizes that concussions and other head injuries are serious and could result in significant brain damage and / or death if not recognized and managed properly.

Vigorous shaking by any chance may cause bleeding in the brain and can even lead to death.