Sentences with phrase «circulatory death»

In a third study, investigators uncovered the importance of reducing cold ischaemic time for donor organs after circulatory death to preserve the energy status of the organs.

The study looked specifically at donation after circulatory death (DCD), in which circulation, heartbeat, and breathing have stopped (as opposed to brain death, in which all the functions of the brain have stopped).

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

«After circulatory arrest, spreading depolarization marks the loss of stored electrochemical energy in brain cells and the onset of toxic processes that eventually lead to death.

The research team identified potential deceased donors based on specific criteria such as a ventilated inpatient death of a patient 75 years or younger, without multi-organ system failure, sepsis, or cancer, and whose cause of death was consistent with organ donation — which includes neurologic determination of death (DNDD) or circulatory determination of death (DCDD).

A total of 5,011 deaths recorded during the follow - up period included 1,938 deaths (39 percent) from cancer, 1,040 (21 percent) from heart disease, and 1,418 (29 percent) from other natural causes, including diseases of the circulatory system (excluding heart disease) and diabetes.

Although some studies have found sauna bathing to be associated with better cardiovascular and circulatory function, the association between regular sauna bathing and risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and fatal cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is not known.

Two studies published in the January issue of Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists ® (ASA ®), shed new light on the prevalence of transfusion - related acute lung injury (TRALI) and transfusion - associated circulatory overload (TACO), the number one and two leading causes of blood transfusion - related deaths in the United States.

These findings show that smoking, while not affecting the PM - associated risk from ischemic heart disease, appeared to interact with air pollution to increase the risk of death from other circulatory diseases.

If death occurs, it is usually a result of circulatory failure and shock.

If not treated immediately complications, both neurological and circulatory, can result in death.

At this point, other problems pile on, including acute dehydrations, bacterial septicemia, circulatory shock, cardiac arrhythmias, gastric perforation, peritonitis, and death.

Unfortunately, one of the primary signs of adult heartworm death in cats is sudden death of the host.2 This has been attributed to circulatory collapse and respiratory failure from acute pulmonary arterial infarction and acute lung injury.2 Acute respiratory collapse may occur with or without previous clinical signs.

Short - term reactions include vomiting, facial swelling, fever, lethargy, circulatory shock, loss of consciousness and even death.

Dehydration should be preferably addressed by infusion of the above mentioned solution, 60 — 70 mL / Kg B.W in 1 — 2 hours; which is necessary, otherwise an acute circulatory collapse can occur and death may occur after shock.

Defects causing significant circulatory derangement will likely cause neonatal death.

This sequence produces a number of other problems, including acute dehydration, bacterial septicemia, circulatory shock, cardiac arrhythmias, gastric perforation, peritonitis, and death.

In his 2011 essay «What to Do with Pictures,» published in October, David Joselit writes: «Networks... provide life support for the individual images that inhabit them; and as in the human body, failure of the circulatory system will lead to death.»

The largest effect was seen in deaths from circulatory diseases, in part because of the opportunity — and incentive — that green spaces provide to exercise.

Around 52 % of annual work - related deaths are due to cancer, compared to 24 % due to circulatory illnesses and 2 % due to injuries.

Most states legally define death as either the irreversible cessation of (a) brain function (brain death), or (b) circulatory and respiratory function.

It found for the five state total, over 2011 - 12 the greatest single cause of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths was circulatory diseases (26.3 %) that it defined to include heart attacks and strokes.

In New Zealand, recent strengthening of the Māori health workforce has led to a number of successes: interventions led by, focused on, and targeted to Māori; consistent investment in Māori health over a prolonged period; and an emphasis on the development of dual cultural and clinical competencies.14 In the United States, successful Native American health service development in the early 1990s appears to have been shaped by federal government administration, the separation of the Indian Health Service from other Native American affairs, and provision of an integrated health service.15 In both countries, recent reductions in overall death rates for indigenous people have been noted; in the US this relates to injury prevention, whereas in NZ it relates to fewer deaths due to circulatory conditions.16 Although it is not known whether improved health services for indigenous peoples in the US and NZ have a causal relationship with decreased mortality, the two appear to «travel together» well.

In 1999 — 2003, two of the three leading causes of death for Indigenous people in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory were chronic diseases of the circulatory system and cancer.