is caused by a massivebrain lesion, such as trauma,intracranial hemorrhage, or anoxia. Using the brainstem formulation of death, however, unusual but existing cases of catastrophic brainstem lesions, usually of hemorrhagic origin, sparing the thalami andcerebral cortex, can be declared brain dead in...
They are simply told their relative is dead and that supportive measures will be continued only so long as is necessary to harvest organs for transplantation, or until the family have had adequate time to confront the fact of death. In this schema, clinicians determine death autonomously, and ...
And yet, as soon as they are defined as brain-dead, they become possible candidates for vital organ transplantation, which certainly will result in their deaths. Is Brain Death Human Death? But there is one question left standing: Is brain death coextensive with human death? There is a livel...
Last year, the Saskatchewan government appointed a former Edmonton police chief to conduct an independent review of the force following the death of a 13-month-old-boy. The child's mother alleged that when she called police for help in the hours before his death, she ...
“all efforts to save your life have been exhausted” and brain death has been determined, in the past decade a little-known innovation has been changing these rules. Now, organ donation can occur in a person who is not brain dead but whose relatives have agreed to withdraw a ventilator (...
Brain metastasis from breast cancer (BMBC) contributes significantly to mortality, yet its mechanisms remain unclear. This study investigates the activation of GPX3+ astrocytes by circulating tumor cell (CTC)-derived exosomes in the metastatic process. U
At present, almost half of all deaths in intensive care follow a decision to withhold or withdraw treat- ment103. There is no moral or legal distinction between withholding or withdrawing104. As discussed above, a person who is brain dead is dead — disconnecting the ventilator will not cause...
After all, you can't murder an already dead person. In this case, therefore, the necessary causal link for the murder offense is missing: It was Jackie, not John, who killed the man (see Dressler, 2015). The last example shows that the existence or nature of an offense depends not ...
000 deaths per yearin the US and are the leading cause of death in young people. If a virus or a war was causing 40,000 deaths per year, there would be outrage, but in a society dependent on convenient automotive transportation, this is merely the cost of doing business. A state ...
A bottlenose dolphin was found shot to death on a Louisiana beach last month and now authorities are offering a $20,000 reward for information that aids their investigation into the incident. NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement said the dead dolphin was found on ...