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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Brain death"”.
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Brain Death, Organ Transplantation and the Ethics of Relationships in Japan: 1968-2000
<p>The center of the brain-death and organ transplantation debate in Japan has always been whether whole brain-death should be regarded as the death of a person. However, the debate has not yet been settled in Japanese society. There are four main reasons why it is said that whole brain-death …
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Pathophysiological effects of brain death on potential donor organs, and the introduction of a new method of donor management
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Rethinking Death and Donation: Mediating Death at the End of Life in the Wake of Brain Death's Failings
Since its inception in 1968, death by whole-brain criteria, or simply brain death, has enjoyed the status of one of the relatively "well settled" issues in bioethics. Indeed, its almost universal acceptance in law and medical practice seems to confirm this depiction. However, over the last fifteen …
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Changes in Water-Electrolyte Balance in Organ Donors with Brain Death and Their Correction in the Intensive Care Unit // Промени във водно-електролитното равновесие при органен донор с мозъчна смърт и корекцията им в интензивната клиника
Brain death is a condition of complete and irreversible cessation of all functions of the brain and brainstem while maintaining circulation in the rest of the body. In approximately 80% of organ donors with brain death, damage to the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland is observed, leading to the …
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Evaluation of the diving reflex in response to water-based foam vs. carbon dioxide gas depopulation in White Pekin ducks
… in time to unconsciousness, motion cessation, brain death, altered terminal cardiac activity, duration of bradycardia, and onset of bradycardia to onset of unconsciousness between foam and CO2 gas for ducks aged 5-9 weeks. Experiment 2 evaluated the effects of non-terminal submersion in both …
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Characteristics of organ donors and logistics of organ procurement for short- and long-term outcomes in abdominal organ transplantation
… To this day, most organs are gifted from brain-dead donors. These donors suffer from a brain death-derived release of inflammatory mediators and sympathetic nervous system hyperactivation, called the cytokine and autonomic storm. These reactions are thought to harm transplantable organs. …
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Ethical issues relating to the 'donation' of human and animal organs for transplantation
… in use: humans declared dead according to brain-based criteria and nonhuman animals. In the first chapter I attempt to provide a theoretical underpinning for the brainstem criterion of brain death. I also criticise certain rival theories. In the second chapter I consider what constraints …
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Attitudes towards organ donor advocacy among Swedish intensive and critical care nurses.
… (ICU) involves the rare situation of caring for brain dead persons who, by their death, become potential organ donors (POD). A consequence might be that end-of-life care continues into after-death care in order to facilitate organ donation (OD). In this situation, the concept of organ donor …
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Perceptions of Family Members of Cadaveric Organ Donors Towards Selected Issues of the Organ Donation Process
… families who had agreed to donate organs from a brain dead family member during the calendar year of 1994. The family members surveyed were the family members of donor(s) whose organ(s) were successfully placed with a waiting recipient. All of the families were served by the organ procurement …
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Enhancing Metabolism of Donor Hearts for Cardiac Transplantation
… injury sustained during the events leading to brain death. We have examined methods to optimize metabolism in two ways. First, we identified substrates which, when added to the circulating preservation solution, maximize myocardial metabolism. Our initial experiments were conducted in a rat …
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An Examination of the Bio-Philosophical Literature on the Definition and Criteria of Death: When is Dead Dead and Why Some Donation After Cardiac Death Donors Are Not
… procurement known as Donation After Cardiac Death procures organs from the newly dead or from the imminently dying. Since the normative rules that guide transplantation require that one may not be killed for or by the removal of one's organs determining the nature of death is of paramount …
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Structures and functions of the post-mortem brain: an experimental evaluation of the residual properties of fixed neural tissues
Does brain function irreversibly cease after death? Billions of years of evolution and hundreds of thousands of years of human development have inculcated within us an intuition that death is a deep pit from which thoughts and behaviour cannot emerge. This dissertation serves to challenge the …
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DEEP ARCHITECTURES FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL SEQUENCE RECOGNITION WITH APPLICATIONS IN AUTOMATIC SEIZURE DETECTION
… to monitor and record electrical activity in the brain. EEGs are essential in diagnosis of clinical conditions such as epilepsy, seizure, coma, encephalopathy, and brain death. Manual scanning and interpretation of EEGs is time-consuming since these recordings may last hours or days. It is also an …
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Measurements of adequacy of anesthesia and level of consciousness during surgery and intensive care
… anesthesia assess the cortical function of the brain, and have gained acceptance during surgical anesthesia with most of the anesthetic agents used. However, due to frequent artifacts, they are considered unsuitable for monitoring consciousness in intensive care patients. The assessment of …
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Urban Hospice: A Montage of Expiration and Memory
… role of montage in an architecture for life and death? The process of making architecture is not a prescribed methodology with a predetermined outcome. Architecture, crafted by the hand of the architect, is a divine act of assemblage of subconscious allegorical thought, image, and tectonics. …