Sentences with phrase «declared brain dead»

When a person is declared brain dead, there cardiovascular system may still be functioning, but brain activity can not be measured.

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.

Experts anticipate ice storage will remain the norm for quality livers from donors declared brain dead, around 80 % of which are transplanted.

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

A day later she was declared brain dead, approximately 25 weeks pregnant.

One of the cops trapped in a Brooklyn apartment building fire allegedly set by a bored teen has been declared brain dead, sources said.

Sucuzhañay, who was declared brain dead last week, was still on life support despite newswire reports to the contrary, until late Friday night when he finally died.

She was resuscitated, but doctors declared her brain dead and pushed to have all life - sustaining medical treatment terminated.

Forget that Christians believe that children will inherit the kingdom of God, and yet when a child is in a hospital declared brain dead, those same Christians want the dead body to stay there being kept «alive» by machines..

Those declared brain dead will never be conscious or responsive.

Not exact matches

He also claims that in severe cases a person may be wrongly declared «brain stem dead» or «brain dead», when in fact recovery may still be possible.

Doctors declared Jahi McMath brain - dead in 2013 — but recent evidence suggests she is still alive.

He was taken off life support when doctors declared him brain - dead.

As a result of her injuries, Nettles was declared brain - dead and taken off life support two days later.

But even though Patience had once declared as «brain - dead» Muhammadu Buhari, the man who would succeed her husband in office, Buhari somehow contrived to keep in office the said governor.

In a three - month period, the Harvard committee (full name: the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death) hammered out a simple set of criteria that today allows doctors to declare a person dead in less time than it takes to get a decent eye exam.

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.»

It's strange that they're declared her dead (as opposed to brain dead) while on a ventilator.

Several days later, doctors at the Alberta Children's Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit declared the baby brain dead and life - sustaining therapies were discontinued.