Sentences with phrase «with brain death»

Peter Fenwick, a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London, wrote in a paper, «The brain - identity theory says that consciousness ends with brain death.

Imagine an elderly human with brain death and cardiac arrest (mitigated only by mechanical ventilation and pacemaker) with no hope of recovery, death imminent, and no known family.

Not exact matches

Of the 399 eligible claims, 124 were deaths and 17 were victims with physical injuries that resulted in quadriplegia, paraplegia, double amputation, permanent brain damage, or pervasive burns.

When Stone's father attempted to sit on it, the tree's rotten trunk gave way and collapsed on him, causing massive brain damage and, with tragic swiftness, brain death.

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.

Acute subdural hematomas have a worse track record than chronic ones with a high rate of death and brain injury, MedlinePlus reports.

mark — after death, when the brain shuts down and begins to decay, there is nothing left to make sense with.

This gets crazier and crazier and Christians still ~ * believe * ~ in eternal life after death, zombie messiahs, moral shades of gray bundled in with loose and literal biblical interpretations... how do Christian's «brains» still function?

In terms of possible physiological triggers, life - endangering events such as falling and a sudden drop of oxygen to the brain are thought to be potential causes - something which would correlate with a previous study which found that 1 in 5 people who'd suffered a heart attack and were resuscitated had reported a near - death experience.

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.»

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].

More popular with both physicians and ethicists is the policy of «required request,» mandating that hospitals ask families about organ donation in every case of brain death.

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.

Of course, I agree with this, but there's a difference between nurturing people to use their brains, and throwing them out to be bombarded to death.

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.

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.

To make sure you don't spend the hours stuck on the sofa bored out of your brains and starving to death, stock up your living room with books / tv box sets / magazines or whatever you're into and always have a big glass of water near by.

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.)

The induced hypothermia protocol is successful in reducing brain damage and death in babies with moderate and severe HIE.

The medical literature is very aware of Second Impact Syndrome (SIS) where a second blow on top of a previous head injury with continuing symptoms leads to a loss of regulation of cerebral blood flow resulting in brain swelling and herniation commonly resulting in death.

«The problem with brain surgery is it's not just about life or death, it's about quality of life.

The former Labour cabinet minister who was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme brain tumour in May last year, suffered a haemorrhage on Friday, and had been in a coma until her death on Saturday, a spokesman for the family said.

«We wondered whether some of those same genes could also cause seizures if they were expressed in the brain and, if so, whether those genes would also place people with epilepsy at risk not only for having epilepsy but also an abnormal heart beat and risk of death,» said Noebels.

Among the 42 Zika - infected women in the study, 12 were carrying fetuses with severe abnormalities, including absence or withering of brain structures, tissue death, restricted growth and, in one case, microcephaly.

The committee said all of the above tests had to be repeated at least 24 hours later with no change, but it added two caveats: hypothermia and drug intoxication can mimic brain death.

«Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in the United States, and patients with the diagnosis of sepsis have a minimum of a 30 percent chance of dying of their disease; if their vital organ systems — brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — are affected, they have a 70 percent chance of dying.

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.

They use the brain - scan findings to explain the interconnected cosmic unity that the Buddhists experienced, but the results could also explain what Morse calls the «universal, unifying thread of love» that people with near - death experience consistently reported.

Neurodegenerative diseases are caused by the death of neurons and other cells in the brain, with different diseases affecting different regions of the brain.

Penfield, one of the giants of modern neuroscience, discovered that stimulating the brain's right temporal lobe — located just above the ear — with a mild electric current produced out - of - body experiences, heavenly music, vivid hallucinations, and the kind of panoramic memories associated with the life review part of the near - death experience.

Britton hypothesized that people who have undergone a near - death experience might show the same altered brain firing patterns as people with temporal lobe epilepsy.

Now, it is being deployed to monitor the Zika as it spreads beyond Brazil, where reports last August of fetal deaths and newborns with brain disorders including microcephaly, a devastating condition that results in abnormally small brains and heads, began to trickle in.

Treating brain hemorrhage (symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage, sICH) after clot - busting thrombolysis for stroke was not associated with a reduced likelihood of in - hospital death or expansion of the hematoma but shortening time to diagnosis and treatment may be key to improving outcomes, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.

An increased amount of miRNA in brain cells was correlated with a younger age at disease onset and an earlier age at death of the patients.

Children with tuberculosis meningitis — a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death — have a biological fingerprint that can be used to assess the severity of the condition, help decide the best course of treatment, and provide clues for novel treatments, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town reveal.

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.

Acetaminophen can cross the placental barrier, Ritz noted, and it is plausible that acetaminophen may interrupt fetal brain development by interfering with maternal hormones or through neurotoxicity, such as the induction of oxidative stress, which can cause the death of neurons.

In a worst - case scenario, malaria - clogged blood vessels in the brain and other organs bring death within days, especially in youngsters, who have immature immune systems, and adults (like the Marines in Liberia) with no immunity to malaria.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

For the study, scientists examined the brains of 36 male athletes, ages 17 to 98, diagnosed with CTE after death, and who had no other brain disease, such as Alzheimer's.

«Marijuana use associated with lower death rates in patients with traumatic brain injuries.»

One of the biggest challenges will be to unite these disparate methodologies to tease apart the normal and abnormal working of the brain in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and the like, diseases that devastate the lives of so many and are so often associated with early death.

Caleb Finch, a neurobiologist who studies Alzheimer's at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, points out that in human brains, amyloid plaques are associated with neuron death, which wasn't measured in the new study.

Dor's own group reports this week that its technique for tracing the origin of circulating DNA detected the expected type of cell death in people with pancreatic cancer, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and brain injuries.

In a study that included more than 71,000 stroke patients, implementation of a quality initiative was associated with improvement in the time to treatment and a lower risk of in - hospital death, intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain), and an increase in the portion of patients discharged to their home, according to the study appearing in the April 23/30 issue of JAMA, a neurology theme issue.

Like prion diseases, Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies result in progressive deterioration of brain functions and, ultimately, death.

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.