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The phenomenon has been observed to occur several minutes after the removal of medical ventilators used to pump air in and out of brain-dead patients. [4] It also occurs during testing for apnea—that is, suspension of external breathing and motion of the lung muscles—which is one of the criteria for determining brain death used for example by the American Academy of Neurology.
Brain death is used as an indicator of legal death in many jurisdictions, [6] but it is defined inconsistently and often confused by the public. [7] Various parts of the brain may keep functioning when others do not anymore, and the term "brain death" has been used to refer to various combinations.
Brainstem death is a clinical syndrome defined by the absence of reflexes with pathways through the brainstem – the "stalk" of the brain, which connects the spinal cord to the mid-brain, cerebellum and cerebral hemispheres – in a deeply comatose, ventilator-dependent patient.
Brain researchers in Paris have been working to better understand these cascading changes that occur when a brain is deprived of oxygen, as well as what they mean for our conceptualization of death.
Her death, and those of two other trial participants, have some doctors questioning whether the risks of the Alzheimer's drug are worth its benefits. New drug's potentially fatal side effects ...
The New York Times 4 June article on the "mysterious brain syndrome" also reported on autopsy results of three [13] of the eight cases. Following the revelation about the results of the autopsy reports, and the release of the first NBPH report, CBC published a series of articles saying that the cases may have been misdiagnosed. [29] [27] [32]
“Toasted skin syndrome is the non-medical term for a skin condition that is caused by chronic exposure to low levels of heat or specific types of radiation," explains Dr. Rachel Nazarian, MD ...
The word apoplexy was sometimes used to refer to the symptom of sudden loss of consciousness immediately preceding death. Strokes , ruptured aortic aneurysms , and even heart attacks were referred to as apoplexy in the past, because before the advent of biomedical science , the ability to differentiate abnormal conditions and diseased states ...