Sentences with phrase «from brain death»

McCabe says his outfit can get a donor from brain death to the operating room in 12 hours.

Some contend that liberalism, beaten down and knocked out too many times, is suffering from brain death.

Not exact matches

I could just have well descended into rhetoric and hyperbole to try explaining from a different angle — trying to reason it out, as it were, to show how anything like a «soul» has no basic value of its own apart from the brain — which turns to crud after death.

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

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.

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.

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.»

The modern - day «near - death experience» phenomenon, where people from all over the world are reporting visions of heaven and hell, often occurring «after death» when there is no brain activity.

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).

People nowadays are having visions and «near - death experiences» that science can not explain away as a hallucination because of the lack of brain activity, and people from all walks of life are confirming similar experiences.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

Homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage in the lowest risk women receiving care from highly trained midwives (often two) and liberal access to transfer.

Babies who die from sudden infant death syndrome make low amounts of the message - carrying brain chemical serotonin, needed to regulate sleep, breathing, and heart rate.

Your Baby's Risk of SIDS May Be Linked to the Brain's Serotonin Levels Babies who die from sudden infant death syndrome make low amounts of the message - carrying brain chemical serotonin, needed to regulate sleep, breathing, and heart Brain's Serotonin Levels Babies who die from sudden infant death syndrome make low amounts of the message - carrying brain chemical serotonin, needed to regulate sleep, breathing, and heart brain chemical serotonin, needed to regulate sleep, breathing, and heart rate.

Can cause brain swelling, permanent brain damage, or even death, if an athlete has a second concussion before fully recovering from a first one

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.

Because they can detect subtle signs of cognitive impairment indicating that an athlete's brain has not fully healed, even where the athlete claims his symptoms have cleared, the tests are designed to help to protect young athletes against the risk of suffering a second concussion by returning too soon, which can lead to short - and long - term cognitive problems, and catastrophic injury or even death from second impact syndrome.

Far from being safe, homebirth dramatically increases the risk of brain injury as well as death.

But a second concussion before symptoms from the first one have cleared can be dangerous, possibly causing brain damage and even death.

Even by the alarmist standards of many product warnings, the labels on the backs of the football helmets are bracingly blunt: «No helmet system can protect you from serious brain and / or neck injuries including paralysis or death.

If contracted by humans, EEE can produce symptoms ranging from mild flu - like illness to inflammation of the brain, coma and death in about a third of those affected.

If contracted by humans, EEE can produce symptoms ranging from a mild flu - like illness to inflammation of the brain, coma and even death in about one third of those affected.

In the first study of its kind looking at babies outside the United States, researchers from the University of Adelaide's Adelaide Medical School investigated 41 cases of SIDS deaths and discovered striking abnormalities in chemical serotonin within the brain.

The results could provide insights into the Zika virus» recent emergence as a global health emergency, and also point to inhibitors of the protein p53 as potential leads for drugs that could protect brain cells from cell death.

Dagdeviren's most recent design was inspired by the death of a beloved aunt from a brain tumor.

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 brain - death establishment discounts such stories as «anecdotal,» as if they were taken from the National Enquirer.

The movement disorder stems from the death of neurons that produce dopamine, a neurochemical that dispatches messages to parts of the brain that control motor skills and coordination.

McCabe says keeping the body alive from the brain stem down defeats warm ischemia, the restriction or loss of blood flow after conventional death.

The PBS series The Secret Life of the Brain (with clips available online at www.pbs.org) takes viewers on a ride through the developing human brain, from birth to dBrain (with clips available online at www.pbs.org) takes viewers on a ride through the developing human brain, from birth to dbrain, from birth to death.

Their samples came from the liver, spleen, brain and heart of 11 cadavers, between 20 and 240 hours after death.

Death is a permanent break in continuity, and your personal POV can not be moved from your brain into some other medium, here or in the hereafter.

To test their theory, the researchers examined Del - 1 expression in brain tissue from people who had died from MS.. In MS patients with chronic active MS lesions, Del - 1 was reduced compared to both healthy brain tissue and brain tissue from MS patients who were in remission at the time of their death.

The research team found that the mutated virus was more likely to pass from the bloodstream to the brain in infected mice and it was more likely to cause inflammation of the brain and death.

Thamara Perera, FRCS, of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, in the UK, and his colleagues used microdialysis, a novel technique to study the differences in basic energy metabolism between organs from DCD and brain death donors.

They also tested other chemicals known to prevent the other two forms of cellular suicide, but only CGP3466B protected mouse nerve cells in the brain from death by cocaine.

The researchers analyzed eight Alzheimer's and six healthy brain samples from a brain bank, where people donate their brains after death for medical research.

A Michigan State University researcher is challenging a widely held African belief that a spinal tap, a procedure safely used to treat other diseases, could suck the brain from the base of the skull and cause death in malaria patients.

Wondering what was behind those reports, McAninch and colleagues at Rush previously obtained and analyzed brain tissue from the University of Miami Brain Bank from deceased Caucasian male organ donors who at their time of death were young and healthy, without known thyroid problems, to see if they could find any cbrain tissue from the University of Miami Brain Bank from deceased Caucasian male organ donors who at their time of death were young and healthy, without known thyroid problems, to see if they could find any cBrain Bank from deceased Caucasian male organ donors who at their time of death were young and healthy, without known thyroid problems, to see if they could find any clues.

Increased pressure in the brain can lead to death in many children who fall into coma from cerebral malaria, which is the most severe form of the disease.

According to forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh, an autopsy after his death revealed that Waters» brain had suffered so much damage from football injuries that it resembled that of an 85 - year - old man with early stage Alzheimer's disease.

The researchers studied the brains of people who died from HD and those who died of other, non-neurological diseases and identified a very specific genetic signal that strongly correlates disease severity and extent of neuronal, or brain cell death.