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New party drug may have killed youths at festival
The Star Online In a case in Britain, the user died 12 hours later,” he said, adding that the likelihood of brain death was high. Street names for mephedrone include MMCAT, Meow Meow, 4MMC, plant food, drone and meph while the websites selling it in Kuala Lumpur call … |
ABC NewsAmazing Facts Highlighted by Malaysian Airliner MysteryABC NewsBrain death can occur at 45,000 feet in the air. Airplane oxygen masks can only provide about 10 to 15 minutes of air for passengers, which is more than enough time for a pilot to r…
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New Jersey isn’t ready for assisted suicide: Opinion
NJ.com Debate about terminal feeding tubes still exists, as we saw nine years ago with the Terri Schiavo case, which created a firestorm of conflicting opinions, and in recent brain death court cases in Texas and California. These matters are not final enough … |
Medical debate over defining death has implications for organ donorsCBC.caThere is another layer of complication: three Canadian provinces – Manitoba, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan – do not accept cardiac death as the standard; they rely on brain deat…
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CPR could become course requirement in Miss. schools – WLOX.com – The …
WLOX “Brain death occurs in 3 to 7 minutes,” explained Lisa Garforth, Madison Fire Department’s Community Educator. “So someone has got to be there.” That’s where Mississippi high school students may be able to step in as a link in what emergency responders … |
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Organ donation after cardiac death
South Asia Mail Their daughter had always wanted to donate her organs, but she didn’t meet the brain death criteria required for donation. Her Ottawa family was determined to fulfill her final wish. In 2006, she became the first Canadian in nearly four decades to … |
Haaretz |
Does Jewish law permit organ donations?
Haaretz There is a passionate cultural debate about when the moment of death actually occurs (brain death vs. cardiac death), which leads some Jews – including rabbinic authorities – to fear that a living body could be desecrated if organs are harvested … |
ChronicleLive |
Freeman Hospital medic says babies have died because of organ donation rules
ChronicleLive … of Paediatrics and Child Health which UKDEC is represented on. ““We would hope that any new guidance gives clarity to doctors caring for dying babies in the diagnosis of brain death and the opportunity to consider organ donation with the parents.” … Call for changes to infant organ donation guidelinesHarborough Mail ‘Crazy’ organ donation rules lead to baby deaths, say doctorsBBC News Parents of newborns who die ‘should be allowed to donate their organs’Daily Mail |
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Organ donation after cardiac death
CBC.ca Their daughter had always wanted to donate her organs, but she didn’t meet the brain death criteria required for donation. Her Ottawa family was determined to fulfill her final wish. In 2006, she became the first Canadian in nearly four decades to … |
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Jahi McMath–accepting her life
RenewAmerica To make it legal, in 1968, a committee at Harvard concocted the first set of “brain death” criteria (not based on scientific investigation) known as the Harvard Criteria. During the next 10 years, 30 disparate sets of criteria were published, each one … |