Sentences with phrase «dead patients continue»

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

Not exact matches

New York City emergency medicine specialist Stephen Wall has endorsed a program in which patients who suffer trauma or cardiac arrest are afforded some resuscitation efforts, but if these fail and the patient is pronounced dead (as determined by a remote authority), CPR will be continued — on the dead patient — until a relative or other surrogate can give consent for organs to be harvested.

The general rule for treatment of patients in cardiac arrest is that once resuscitation measures have begun, they must be continued uninterruptedly until the patient shows signs of life or is pronounced dead.

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.