Sentences with phrase «for brain death»

Despite the Harvard Ad Hoc Committee's claims that its criteria for brain death and the cardiopulmonary criteria describe the same phenomenon, beating - heart cadavers (BHCs) are decidedly different from regular corpses.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.»

Coimbra recommended that the30 year - old procedures for the diagnosis of brain death should be urgently reviewed.

[16] Coimbra Cicero, 2001, Implications of ischemic penumbra for the diagnosis of brain death, University of Sao Paulo.

Dr David Jones, Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's College, London, has pointed out that he does not accept that brain death can be assumed for any cadaver with a beating - heart, and challenges the ethical acceptability of the use of any such cadaver for donor purposes [13].

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, 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.»

I can see that, and the thing that does it for me is the brain death.

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

I find my life very meaningful and understanding the death means nothing more than no more brain function, I try to make every second I have meaningful for my here and now.

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.

but one of the most effective and dangerous vehicles for that destruction and death is religion... tells you who you should hate... who needs to die... and is a license to disengage your brain.

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.

Doubt this team would get out of the group stages of the EPL... The ostrich is taking the club for a ride already... Can add his idiot football brain to death and taxes

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.

Shaking a baby is a horrible tragedy that can cause certain brain damage and often death whereas letting the baby cry for a few minutes (not hours) while you get your bearings or call for help, will not hurt the child.

(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).

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:

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.

Consider, too, that breastfeeding is now the leading cause of kernicterus (jaundice induced brain damage) responsible for 90 % of the cases of this serious complication that often results in long term disability or even death.

The story is an allegory for the death of Pirola's own father, John, who suffered for years through searing neuropathic pain as a result of a brain stem tumor, and over several years, underwent more than 10 brain / skull - based surgeries.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are 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.)

Did the study show that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage or did it show that homebirth is safe for rigorously screened women who have had uncomplicated births in the past?

It's extremely selfish of the women to risk not only death but permanent brain injury for their children, then ask all of us to pay for their stupidity.

The finding by a neuropathologist that brain damage from repeated concussions suffered by former NFL star Andre Waters likely led to his depression and ultimate death by suicide in November 2006 highlights once again the critical need for parents and youth athletes to become educated and proactive about concussions.

Bad outcomes for mothers hardly ever include death and permanent brain damage.

Homebirth in the UK for women * who have never had a baby * but whose current pregnancy has no risk factors of any kind and who are being cared for by highly educated and highly trained midwives increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage.

Bad outcomes for babies are death and permanent brain damage or other disability such as a brachial plexus injury sustained during a difficult vaginal delivery.

Drugs used in active management have documented risks for the mother, including death, and we do not know the long - term effects of these drugs, which are given at a critical stage of brain development, for the baby.

Feeding babies on this unnutritious product for any period of time could cause grave and irreversible health problems, including brain damage and death.

Do NOT decline this shot as without vitamin K, your baby could be at risk for sudden and serious bleeding in the brain or intestines which could be life threatening or lead to permanent brain damage and even death.

A child fighting for oxygen has about 90 seconds before they may experience permanent brain damage or even death.