Family consent for organ donations from brain-dead kin declinesHaaretzBut 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 asked directly about orga…
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Global Brain Monitoring Market worth $1.63 Billion by 2017
Sacramento Bee The “Brain Monitoring Market by Product [EEG/Magnetoencephalography (MEG)/Intracranial Pressure Monitor/Cerebral Oximeter/Transcranial Doppler] & Application [Sleep Disorders/Epilepsy/Traumatic Brain Injury/Brain Death] – Global Forecasts to 2017″ … |
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Global Brain Monitoring Market worth $1.63 Billion by 2017
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com The “Brain Monitoring Market by Product [EEG/Magnetoencephalography (MEG)/Intracranial Pressure Monitor/Cerebral Oximeter/Transcranial Doppler] & Application [Sleep Disorders/Epilepsy/Traumatic Brain Injury/Brain Death] – Global Forecasts to 2017″ … |
Donor liver quality: an interview with Dr Eric OrmanNews-Medical.netDCD donors are those who undergo organ procurement shortly after the breathing machine and blood pressure medications are stopped and after the heart stops beating. This is in contrast…
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When his online nemesis called him a rapist and a “gamma male,” John Scalzi …
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 … |
When An Infant Needs A Heart Transplant, A Scarcity Of Organs Compounds …Huffington PostOrgans can only be removed and donated when patients die in the hospital, primarily when brain death occurs, said Anne Paschke, spokeswoman for the United Network…
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‘Lack of awareness on organ transplant’
Hindu Business Line Recalling the first heart transplant procedure he did in India two years ago (after the legislation of Brain Death), Cherian said: “The donor was a child – one year and ten months. The child was diagnosed ‘brain dead’ after an accident. Incidentally … |
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Q&A: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Executive Producer of Monday Mornings
TIME You can have an episode in which you’re talking about whether a transplant patient is actually brain dead—how do you determine brain death? Or if someone is on a ventilator — who has the authority to make medical decisions if there’s nothing written? |
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Doctors testify in trial of Carlsbad man accused in 2004 death of 1-year-old
Carlsbad Current Argus Brain death is scored as a 3 on the scale, he said. According to Witte, it normally takes no longer than 30 minutes to transfer a patient to an aircraft but it took longer in Amy’s case; she was finally dispatched at 3:55 p.m. and arrived in Lubbock at … |
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Dr. on healthcare for Muslims
The Chicago Maroon Taha Abdul-Basser, Muslim chaplain at Harvard University who moderated a bioethics panel at Padela’s conference and collaborated with him on a report that found Islamic definitions of brain-death were not scientifically up to date, spoke to the … |