22 hospitals may get organ retrieval permitTimes of IndiaHospitals registered as non-transplant organ retrieval centres are permitted to certify brain death and thereafter carry out organ retrieval. But they are not permitted to perform transplant of h…
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Donors urged to join register, make wishes known to family
My Daily News That’s why organ donation is linked with brain death because it is the only instance when despite confirmed death, medical staff can keep the organs functioning until they can, with consent, be recovered within minutes of the heart stopping. Tissue … |
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Donors urged to join register, make wishes known to family
The Sunshine Coast Daily That’s why organ donation is linked with brain death because it is the only instance when despite confirmed death, medical staff can keep the organs functioning until they can, with consent, be recovered within minutes of the heart stopping. Tissue … |
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‘How Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care’
AARP News But a nursing supervisor’s examination found that the 47-year-old man displayed a strong gag-and-cough reflex and slightly moved his head, all inconsistent with brain death. A neurosurgeon confirmed her findings. No one was suggesting that my mom was … |
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A Mother’s Death Tested Reporter’s Thinking About End-Of-Life Care
NPR (blog) But a nursing supervisor’s examination found that the 47-year-old man displayed a strong gag-and-cough reflex and slightly moved his head, all inconsistent with brain death. A neurosurgeon confirmed her findings. No one was suggesting that my mom was … |
Novinite.comCaracas officials disprove claims that Chavez is cut off life supportThe Voice of RussiaOn Wednesday, former Ambassador of Panama to the Organization of American States, Guillermo Koches said he had confidential information that President H…
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Israel: Never mind the bleeding, it was cardiac arrest
Glossy News (satire) In all cases, if the subject’s heart had continued beating, death would not have occurred, the only exception being brain death, and in that case cardiac arrest occurs when we pull the plug. Barb Weir: Perhaps I’m asking the wrong question, Dr. Proval. |
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New Book Suggests Return from Death Possible
Discovery News … clearly the answer is yes. The question — at least in near-death experience research — is instead whether people can be brought back (without catastrophic and irreparable brain damage) after clinical brain death, and the answer to that seems to … |
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How my mom’s death changed my thinking about end-of-life care
Raw Story But a nursing supervisor’s examination found that the 47-year-old man displayed a strong gag-and-cough reflex and slightly moved his head, all inconsistent with brain death. A neurosurgeon confirmed her findings. No one was suggesting that my mom was … |
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Chavez may join Sharon’s company of never ‘coming back’
The Voice of Russia Guillermo Cochez, the former Panama’s ambassador to the Organization of American States, said Wednesday that he knew from confidential sources that Venezuela`s President Hugo Chavez suffered brain death on December, 30. Although Venezuelan Vice … |