Some thought brain-dead patients were dead because they would never wake up again. |
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I once had a conversation with a fairly well-known bioethicist about his experience turning off the ventilator on his brain-dead father. |
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Week after week we see gangs of brain-dead boneheads invade this part of town hellbent on violence and fuelled by alcohol. |
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Oh, so you found new brain-dead idiots to follow you and they somehow just made your ego so big that it can't fit through our front door? |
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What do you take us for, a bunch of brain-dead, no-sense-of-possession Weeds? |
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A brain-dead Virginia woman on life support has given birth now to a baby girl. |
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The brain-dead backup applet that comes with Windows NT is a classic example. |
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A 26-year-old brain-dead mother has died in a Virginia hospital after her life support was disconnected. |
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I forget all my mid-90s micro-genre names, but there must be one for nine brain-dead minutes of window-rattling 180 bpm drum loops. |
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In fact, after his stroke, his life was nearly terminated by his physicians, who believed he was brain-dead. |
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Furthermore, Tri suggested brain-dead patients donate their hearts, livers, eyes and other organs to those in need. |
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So, what, if I truly respected you I'd think you're just as brain-dead as I am? |
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A device to make the organs of brain-dead donors more suitable for transplant will be evaluated in a government-funded study. |
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Thirty-two hours later she was clinically brain-dead, the result of a cerebral haemorrhage. |
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He said he would prepare legislation to sharply restrict the withdrawal of feeding tubes and other life support from brain-dead patients. |
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The 380 cases may include turning off life support for brain-dead patients, with the consent of relatives, but the 88 cases are more of a concern. |
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So quite why they sent an engineer to my parents house I'm at a loss, other than the obvious of them being a bunch of brain-dead morons. |
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I just hope it isn't my luck that I get some ditzy valley girl, or some brain-dead heartthrob. |
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The people of Taiwan have every right to be outraged by the case of the four-year-old abuse victim recently declared brain-dead at a Taichung hospital. |
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Before that, the fetal neural structure is about as sophisticated as that of a sea slug and its EEG as flat and unorganized as that of someone brain-dead. |
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Well, these computer images illustrate the placement of the tissue and the muscle that were taken from a brain-dead donor after her family consented. |
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There is a really brain-dead article about the current bankruptcy bill on Real Clear Politics by some woman who obviously knows nothing about either economics or business. |
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At least seven cases are reported of brain-dead women giving birth to healthy babies. |
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Dr. John Yun: I think that kind of example is precisely the kind of example we would use to argue that brain-dead is not necessarily dead. |
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I went through that, and found myself in a bit of a dilemma as to whether I should declare the person brain-dead. |
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Mr. Maurice Vellacott: Notwithstanding the fact that the person is brain-dead, no brainwaves or anything. |
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So-called brain-dead patients needed all the skills of intensive care to keep them alive. |
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She became brain-dead, brain-dead by the fact that her brain had no electrical activity. |
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Qualification for a brain-dead donor in Canada demands a normal temperature, which is only maintained by an active brain stem. |
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There you will see my scientific objection to organ retrieval based on brain-dead criteria. |
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But help is on the way, as Wednesday 13 stands ready to shock the rock status quo out of its brain-dead coma. |
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A donor should, in most cases, be brain-dead, but their heart must still be beating. |
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Even if he is a brain-dead patient, doctors decide he is dead only when his heart doesn't beat. |
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For example, at what stage should one turn off the life-support machine of a person who is brain-dead? |
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And, frankly, you'd have to be half brain-dead not to have the words buzzing round your head at the end! |
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Recipients can receive a whole liver from a brain-dead donor, or a portion of a liver from a living relative or friend. |
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I certainly had no interest in the formulaic, brain-dead content on most TV dramas and sitcoms. |
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While not brain-dead, the 81 year old exists in a persistent vegetative state. |
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His faith is far more sincere and far more deserving of respect than the brain-dead know-nothingism of the fundamentalists. |
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In contrast, this is brain-dead pap that will be forgotten in a week, another floater in the sewer of empty rhetoric. |
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The result is a guilty pleasure that provides a shamefully enjoyable piece of brain-dead fun. |
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Most organs for transplant are harvested from brain-dead cadavers, although a few come from living donors. |
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According to the Mirror, Britain's young people are fed up with brain-dead pop stars and shallow celebs. |
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In answer to Mrs Krupa, let me say that brain-dead patients are dead and cannot be killed, but their organs can save the lives of many sick people. |
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Twenty percent of brain-dead people have active cortical activity, as demonstrated on electroencephalogram. |
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Unfortunately, this right sometimes extends to even the most brain-dead imbeciles. |
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But our health care system's injustice is also evident among cadaveric, brain-dead donors. |
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We examine the patient after a period of time has passed to make sure that all the criteria are met before we actually do say that the patient is brain-dead. |
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The first important fact that I wish to establish to you, as legislators, is that the so-called brain-dead criteria used in Canada do not comply with the legal definition of death. |
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That is, the physician pronouncing a patient brain-dead must not be the treating physician for a potential organ recipient. |
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Even today, you still spend three days brain-dead before revival. |
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To view it differently is to prefer brain-dead legalism to survival. |
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The operation was started after the donor was confirmed legally brain-dead. |
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It met the criteria for brain-dead, but was the person dead? |
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I'd like to know what the outcome is for an anencephalic or brain-dead child. |
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Thus, a diagnosis of brain-dead demands that a brain be alive. |
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Is the brain-dead person a dying patient rather than a dead person? |
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First, the brain-dead criteria are reliable and relatively simple to use. |
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But don't you think it would be better to participate in a way, to try and change the system from within rather than let the whole thing go completely brain-dead? |
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One of the problems we have here is that if you review the literature worldwide, there is not a consensus on how people go about declaring people brain-dead. |
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Japan's first heart, liver, kidney and cornea transplants from a brain-dead donor took place on March 1 at the Kochi Medical School in Kochi Prefecture. |
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But the head of the center says that efforts to persuade the families of brain-dead patients to allow organs to be harvested posthumously have so far failed. |
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Who has time for gay marriage, activist judges, or brain-dead bulimics when you've got a real boogeyman to freak out about? |
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Recently, direct evidence for diaphragmatic atrophy with MV has been obtained in mechanically ventilated, brain-dead organ donors. |
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The current Organ Transplant Law limits brain-dead donors to those aged over 15, a restriction which forbids surgery such as heart transplants for children. |
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