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Waking the dead? Some things you should know about dying
ScienceAlert Obviously, it all got much harder when laws were introduced that defined two distinct kinds of death – circulatory (traditional) death and the new kid on the block, brain death. These laws were introduced in Australia in the early 1980s to legitimise … |
Anesthesiology News |
Europeans Call for Anesthesiologists To Take Lead in ICU Death Declarations
Anesthesiology News And although guidelines of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) generally are accepted as official (Ann Neurol 2012;71:573-585), a survey of brain-death protocols in leading U.S. neurology departments “disclosed a shocking lack of standardization, … |
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Scientists working on ‘modest goal’ of building computer based on human brain
Death and Taxes Computer scientist Dharmendra Modha and his team at IBM have done a pretty clever thing in partnership with DARPA, the government invention lab that brought us the Internet, GPS, night vision goggles, and all kinds of other fun stuff: They’ve built a … |
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‘Organ donation must be discussed in every living room’
Times of India The Act made it possible for transplantation to occur in a well-organized and legal manner, and paved the way for donation of organs after brain death (cadaver organ donation). Before the Act, the definition of death in India only included cessation of … |
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CRPF jawans pledge organs
Times of India Acceptance of brain death in India is low, Vij said. “Patients who are brain-dead have suffered irreversible loss of all brain function and are clinically and legally dead. After natural death, only a few tissues like cornea, bone, skin can be donated … |
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‘Organ bank need of hour’
Times of India Saying that hundreds of people die every year due to lack of organs from transplant, they stressed on generating awareness regarding organ donation in the event of brain death. The head of the anatomy department at the Gauhati Medical College and … |
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Docs: Brain-death declaration a must
Deccan Chronicle Hyderabad: Medical experts stress that a ‘brain-dead’ declaration must be made mandatory in government hospitals in Andhra Pradesh. This will help to identify potential organ donors. On Organ Donation Day, observed on August 6, health counsellors and … Organ Donation Day: Hundreds die in India for lack of organsIndia.Com Health Cadaveric organ donation in India caught in bureaucratic bindThe Hindu |
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Comment: Waking the dead? Things you should know about dying
SBS Obviously, it all got much harder when laws were introduced that defined two distinct kinds of death – circulatory (traditional) death and the new kid on the block, brain death. Brain death is the ‘irreversible cessation of all function of the person’s … |
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Waking the dead? Some things you should know about dying
SBS Obviously, it all got much harder when laws were introduced that defined two distinct kinds of death – circulatory (traditional) death and the new kid on the block, brain death. Brain death is the ‘irreversible cessation of all function of the person’s … |
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Can the Truth Come Back With a Capital ‘T’? (Part 4)
Huffington Post While fMRI and EEG studies are helpful to diagnose brain death and map the activation of high level circuits associated with self-awareness or decision making, our current imaging tools still do not, in fact, answer fundamental cause and effect … |