|
For Lindsey, the beat goes on
Baker City Herald Somewhere, a patient suffers brain death. That person is legally deceased and will never wake again, but his or her organs are still functioning. The patient’s family then decides to allow the organs to be procured for donation. Information about the … |
 Hamilton Spectator |
UPDATED: Ambulance service ‘crippled’ by flu peak
Hamilton Spectator Three minutes is a significant jump for critical care, considering brain death can occur in three to four minutes when vital signs are absent. “It crippled our service,” said Mario Posteraro, president of Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 256. |
 Hamilton Spectator |
Ambulance service ‘crippled’ by flu peak
Hamilton Spectator Three minutes is a significant jump for critical care, considering brain death can occur in three to four minutes when vital signs are absent. “It crippled our service,” said Mario Posteraro, president of Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 256. |
|
Short Story Contest Winners
Berkeley High Jacket This might be brain death. I say, I’m thinking of a number between point–zero–one and point–zero–two. But be careful now. The first assumption you’re going to make is {x| 0.01≤x≤0.02}. This is true if we assume that there are a finite amount of … |
|
A living human person on earth until true death
RenewAmerica Prior to true death there are patients who are labeled “as good as dead,” “soon to be dead,” “brain death,” “cardiac death,” “probably dead,” “apparently dead,” etc., when there is interest to convert such patients into organ donors. None of these … |
After critical head injury, crane operator makes remarkable recoveryMilwaukee Journal SentinelWhen he arrived at Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, his pupils were fixed and dilated, a sign that he was progressing toward brain death, said Thomas Was…
|
Internet Trolls Inspire Writer’s Anti-Bigotry Campaign And Over $60000 in …
Queerty As Salon reports, things had been testy between the two since 2005, when Dean claimed women “are academically cauterized into intellectual brain death” and too busy “yammering on and on about their feelings in Women’s Studies classes.” Scalzi, current … |
|
Hot Asian genre films at EFM
Film Business Asia Sasahara, meanwhile, blames himself for causing the brain-death of his fianceé, Hitomi, in a car crash. Her parents have forbidden him from visiting her in hospital, where she is only being kept alive by machines. And Asuka, he is told by his workmates … |
 Salon |
Sci-fi writer makes $50000 for charity off of his “troll”
Salon “As everyone who’s ever attended an elite university knows,” he wrote, “a shocking number of women there are academically cauterized into intellectual brain death. While men are listening to professors lecture on history, economics and engineering, far … |
HaaretzFamily consent for organ donations in Israel declines after surprise spike in 2011HaaretzBut the transplant center reported that out of 183 patients in 2012 who had been declared brain dead in hospitals, the families of nearly one third were not…