When it comes to science so well proven, it doesn't matter what I "believe" and what anyone "believes" should have no bearing on the situation. It's a scientifically sound medical perspective.A patient on a mechanical ventilator has a beating heart, but has been proclaimed "brain death" according to accepted US standards.
Do you accept the patient as dead?
When it comes to science so well proven, it doesn't matter what I "believe" and what anyone "believes" should have no bearing on the situation. It's a scientifically sound medical perspective.
A patient on a mechanical ventilator has a beating heart, but has been proclaimed "brain death" according to accepted US standards.
Do you accept the patient as dead?
Does not matter what I believe.
Just in the way it doesnt matter if a diagnosed HIV patient believes he doesnt have HIV.
Or when someone with cholera believes he hasnt got cholera.
A patient on a mechanical ventilator has a beating heart, but has been proclaimed "brain death" according to accepted US standards.
Do you accept the patient as dead?
Usually the brain dead never come back. I am told that ansthetized patients can probably suffer regional trauma with long term consequences. This can be prevented with local anesthesia. This indicates that the brain is not the only part of the body that feels pain.
So if you donate organs, make sure you get local anesthetics.
Just to wind you up.any other type of major organ failure results in brain death... (if the failure is bad enough)
also other organs pretty much need the brain to function...
Why are we asking this question again?
Jury's out on that one.
A patient on a mechanical ventilator has a beating heart, but has been proclaimed "brain death" according to accepted US standards.
Do you accept the patient as dead?
Absolutely.
When it comes to science so well proven, it doesn't matter what I "believe" and what anyone "believes" should have no bearing on the situation. It's a scientifically sound medical perspective.
Of what consequence is anyone's belief? What is the purpose of this thread?A patient on a mechanical ventilator has a beating heart, but has been proclaimed "brain death" according to accepted US standards.
Do you accept the patient as dead?
any other type of major organ failure results in brain death... (if the failure is bad enough)
also other organs pretty much need the brain to function...
Why are we asking this question again?
Ask Texas.....