Liver transplant leads to healthy childhood for Cape boyIsland ReporterBetsy Edwards, senior public affairs coordinator for the LifeLink Foundation, said after an individual suffers an irrecoverable brain injury and is declared brain dead or is rapidly…
Family, firefighters mourn 4-year-old who died after crashThe Idaho StatesmanPatients in rare cases have recovered from brain death, or the permanent loss of brain function. But medical bodies such as the American Academy of Neurology consider it to me…
Drive to encourage organ donationsPeninsula On-lineDOHA: Qatar Center for Organ Transplantation at the Hamad General Hospital has received an increased number of referrals about brain death patients from intensive care units, although the number of org…
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Hospital fined after patient wakes during organ harvesting operation
BioEdge St Joseph’s was fined US$6,000 for the errors, ordered to review its quality assurance program, and was told to hire a consulting neurologist to teach staff how to diagnose brain death. Why didn’t the story emerge earlier? Burns was too depressed to … |
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Child’s brain death raises questions
The Idaho Statesman Brain death is the permanent loss of brain function and means the person had died, according to the American Academy of Neurology. The diagnosis is made only after a comprehensive evaluation that can involve more than 25 separate assessments. |
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Family agonizes over decision to donate child’s organs
Asahi Shimbun As parents, the Oyamas came face to face with one of the worst nightmares anyone who has loved a child can imagine: the brain death of their little girl and then having to decide whether to let her go in order to donate her organs so that other … |
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‘Dead’ Hospital Patient Wakes Up Just as Doctors Prepare to Remove Organs
The Hollywood Gossip Hospital Pic. Brain death occurs when oxygen from blood is no longer delivered to the brain, causing activity to stop permanently and leaving no chance of the person waking up. Burns did not meet the criteria for brain death, however, despite a staff … Patient Wakes Up As Doctors Prepare to Harvest Her OrgansJDJournal.com ‘Dead’ Hospital Patient Wakes Up To Doctors Preparing To Remove OrgansHuffington Post Think you don’t need an organ donor opt-out card? Think again — the Burns caseRenewAmerica ABC News –DigitalJournal.com –Gawker all 82 news articles » |
Nelson Mandela death rumors: He is not brain dead, says grandsonNorthern Voices OnlineAll sorts of reports are circulating about him. Nelson Mandela death rumors seem to be everywhere, but his grandson has said that Mandela is not brain dead,. Though t…
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Think you don’t need an organ donor opt-out card? Think again — the Burns case
RenewAmerica So-called “brain death” or “cardiac/circulatory death” are terms concocted by transplant physicians and their allies who wanted to enlarge the donor pool by including patients who are really not dead in the traditional sense of the word. The difference … ‘Dead’ Hospital Patient Wakes Up To Doctors Preparing To Remove OrgansHuffington Post Patient Wakes Up as Doctors Get Ready to Remove OrgansABC News Dead woman back alive just before her organ removed for donationDigitalJournal.com Gawker –The New Age Online –LifeNews.com all 75 news articles » |
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Chennai man arrested in illegal kidney racket
The New Indian Express K Annamalai, a native of Vellore working with a private company at Huzur was severely injured on his head which led to his brain death on Tuesday. On Wednesday, a team of doctors at the hospital harvested the dead man’s organs- kidneys, eyes, heart … |